Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58
The course serves as the entrance to the field of safety and reliability engineering with the introduction of the basic concepts and tools of safety and risk management. Legal frames related to engineering safety are also introduced.
Contents include: Fundamentals of safety engineering; natural and man-made hazards; safety measures; accident and failure statistics; fundamentals of risk management; risk assessment techniques; classical reliability theory; modelling of engineering systems as series and parallel systems; redundancy; fault trees and event trees; availability and maintainability; UK safety legislation, including the Health and Safety at Work Act and its historical, offshore and other regulations.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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To have a good understanding on the technical and legislative needs for risk and reliability assessment. Some basic analysis tools. The following modules will be covered in the course:
1. Fundamentals of risk management;
2. Classical reliability theory;
3. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
4. Reliability Block Diagram;
5. Fault Tree Analysis;
6. Event Tree Analysis;
7. Bayesian Network modelling;
8. UK safety legislations, including historic development. Health and Safety at Work Act, offshore and other regulations.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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Fault Tree Analysis of an Accident in Energy Sector. Generic and individual feedback given. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 80 | |
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Individual feedback available on request. |
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