This book is based on a lecture course to students specializing in the safety of technological processes and production.
The author focuses on three main problems in technological risks and safety: elements of reliability theory, the basic notions, models and methods of general risk theory and some aspects of insurance in the context of risk management.
Although the material in this book is aimed at those working towards a bachelor’s degree in engineering, it may also be of interest to postgraduate students and specialists dealing with problems related to reliability and risks.
Tabella dei contenuti
Part 1. Reliability of Engineering Systems
1. Main notions and reliability characteristics
2. Reliability characteristics of removable items
3. Statistical analysis of reliability data
4. Structural reliability
5. System life tree and its structure function
6. Non-renewable redundancy
7. Renewable redundant reliability systems
Part 2. Reliability and risk
8. Risk: notion and measurement
9. Damage models
10. Methods of risk analysis
Part 3. Risks insurance
11. Risks insurance and insurance of risks
12. Elements of financial mathematics
13. Short terms risks insurance models
14. Long terms risks insurance models
Circa l’autore
Vladimir Rykov is Professor in the Applied Mathematics and Computer Modeling Department of the Gubkin Russian State Oil and Gas University in Moscow. His main interests include controllable queueing systems and reliability theory.
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