Browsing by Subject "Risk Analysis"
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Construction projects are complicated and fraught with so many risks that many projects are unable to meet pre-defined project objectives. Managers of construction projects require decision support tools that can be used ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)A risk review of a fuel cell-based distributed co-generation (FC-Based DCG) system was conducted to identify and quantify the major technological system risks in a worst-case scenario. A risk review entails both a risk ...
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(2012-10-19)In development projects, designers should take into consideration the possibility of a vapor cloud explosion in the siting and design of a process plant from day one. The most important decisions pertinent to the location ...
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(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2000)Typical deliverables of a classical quantitative risk analysis (or QRA) effort are individual risk and societal risk data. Individual risk within the context of such a classical QRA is defined as the frequency or probability ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This study analyzes the economic and geographic effects of alternative locations on risky investment decisions in a probabilistic framework. Historically, alternative locations for multi-million dollar investments are often ...
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(2009-05-15)Meander migration is a complex and dynamic process of the lateral movement of a river due to erosion on one bank and deposition on the opposite bank. As a result, the channel migrates in a lateral direction, which might ...
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(2015-07-09)The lack of management of organizational change has been found to be a contributing factor in a number of accidents. Proper management of organizational change considering the possible process safety incidents is essential ...
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(2021-04-07)A proper strategic asset management enables one to understand what network performance can be achieved, at what expense, and with what associated risks. However, the current management approaches practiced by many cities ...
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(2020-04-16)Following recent trends in literature, this dissertation moves away from conventional measurements of informality and formality that conceive them as binary and opposing concepts. Instead, this study proposes to define ...
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(2016-08-08)Investigations of major catastrophes in process industries have revealed that deficiency of good safety culture is one of the underlying causes of such disasters. Not only has safety culture been recognized as a root cause, ...
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(2009-05-15)The oil and gas industry, more than at any time in the past, is highly affected by technological advancements, new products, drilling and completion techniques, capital expenditures (CAPEX), operating expenditures (OPEX), ...