Recent catastrophic accidents in China and the USA urge and justify a thorough study on
current & future research trends in the development of modeling methods and protection …

Domino accidents are typical low-frequency and high-consequence events in chemical
process industries. Applying quantitative risk assessment (QRA) in domino accident …

In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in research literature on the challenges
of interconnected, compound, interacting, and cascading risks. These concepts are …

Many decision problems have more than one objective that need to be dealt with
simultaneously. Risk, Reliability and Maintenance (RRM) are contexts in which decision …

Oil and gas sector plays a major role in a country's economy. The development of large
transmission pipelines for onshore and offshore gas transport is executed rapidly. These …

Abstract The Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami damaged or destroyed many
industrial facilities housing or processing hazardous substances, such as refineries …

Since the late 80s the application of quantitative risk assessment to the issue of land-use
planning with respect to major accident hazards emerged as a topic to be addressed within …

This paper reviews principal concepts, tools, and metrics for risk management and
Inherently Safer Design (ISD) during the conceptual stage of process design. Even though …

Incidents at US onshore hazardous liquid pipeline systems were analyzed with an emphasis
on natural hazards. Incidents triggered by natural hazards (natechs) were identified by …

Natech Risk Assessment and Management: Reducing the Risk of Natural-Hazard Impact on
Hazardous Installations covers the entire spectrum of issues pertinent to Natech risk …