Barrier Engineering

Auteur

Yiliu Liu is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His main research interests include safety barriers and safety-critical systems, risk management, system reliability, and resilience engineering. He is the director of the international master program of RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety) at NTNU, the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reliability and Safety, and the subject editor of the journal Process Safety and Environmental Protection.

Texte du rabat

This book aims to provide a systematic approach to the design, assessment, operation, and maintenance of safety barriers that are used for preventing accidents and protecting humans, equipment, and the environment.

Contenu

1. Introduction of Safety Barriers. 2. Barrier management and non-technical barriers. 3. Technical Safety Barriers. 4. Hazard-barrier identification and qualitative assessment. 5. Probabilistic modeling approaches for barrier engineering. 6. Performance measures. 7. Data analysis in barrier engineering. 8. Structural and Operational Analysis . 9. Test and Maintenance. 10. Dependencies within safety barriers. 11. Digitalization and artificial intelligence in barrier engineering. 12. Barrier Engineering and Security. 13. Barrier Engineering and Sustainability. 14. Resilience enhancer: Extension of safety barrier.