Incorporating safety risk in early system architecture trade studies

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 430-437

  Dulac, Nicolas ^a,b   Leveson, Nancy ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; LIFE CYCLE; NASA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS; ARCHITECTURAL DECISION; CONCEPT EVALUATION; CONCEPTUAL SYSTEM DESIGN; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; PRELIMINARY HAZARD ANALYSIS; SPACE EXPLORATIONS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

EID: 65949109943     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.37361     Document Type: Article

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