Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides an excellent description of the design phase of the SIS safety life cycle as defined in IEC 61511:2016. It focuses on the fundamental concepts, starting with a description of the entire safety life cycle process and then explaining how the design steps-from conceptual design through design verification-fit into that process. The book:
- Explains the advantages of the performance-based approach to design
- Discusses minimum redundancy concepts
- Addresses equipment qualification
- Provides the theoretical background for the probabilistic calculations that are the foundation of performance verification
- Covers recent advances in SIF verification modeling
- Provides numerous examples to explain potentially confusing language from IEC 61511 and IEC 61508
