Publisher's Synopsis
"Reliability and Risk Assessment" provides the reader with a comprehensive description of the main probabilistic methods employed in the field, and shows how these methods can be used, not only to improve safety records, but how they can be utilized to improve efficiency, productivity and profitability.;It focuses on fault tree analysis, and failure mode and effect analysis.;Each chapter is self contained with worked examples and it features major case studies from recent projects to show how the methods are applied.