Recommendations on the use of expert judgment in safety and reliability engineering studies. Two offshore case studies

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 65-76

  Hokstad, Per ^a   Øien, Knut ^a   Reinertsen, Rune ^b  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE DRILLING; PROBABILITY; SEMISUBMERSIBLES;

OFFSHORE OIL GAS INDUSTRY; OFFSHORE SAFETY SYSTEMS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032108558     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0951-8320(97)00084-7     Document Type: Article

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