The paper reviews past progress in the development of methods and models for process
safety and risk management and highlights the present research trends; also it outlines the …

Safety and reliability are rigorously assessed during the design of dependable systems.
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) processes are comprehensive, structured and logical …

Gas explosion is one of the most deadly hazards in underground coal mining. Risk
assessment has played an effective role in avoiding gas explosions and revising coal mine …

Safety barriers play a critical role in preventing unintentional hydrocarbon flow leaking from
reservoir to external environment or another formation during different offshore operation …

The performance of many engineering systems in their lifetimes can be modeled as multiple
states to facilitate operational decision-making. Based on the information that the system is …

In a subsea blowout preventer system, a subsea blind shear ram preventer (BSRP) plays as
a crucial safety barrier by cutting off the drill pipe and sealing the wellhead to prevent …

This paper proposes a holistic approach to model the Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS).
The model is based on Switching Markov Chain and integrates several parameters like …

This paper presents a method to assess system reliability in the presence of epistemic and
aleatory uncertainty. This hybrid method uses belief functions to model and manipulate …

Abstract Common Cause Failures (CCFs) can compromise reliability performance of safety
related systems and hence configurations with identical redundant units receive special …

Safety-instrumented systems (SISs) have been widely installed to prevent accidental events
and mitigate their consequences. Mechanical final elements of SISs often become …