New quantitative safety standards: Different techniques, different results?

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-125

  Rouvroye, J L ^a   Brombacher, A C ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY OF FAILURE ON DEMAND; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEMS (SIS);

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 0033221788     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00028-9     Document Type: Article

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