Quantitative assessment of horizontal directional drilling project risk using fuzzy fault tree analysis

Construction Research Congress 2010: Innovation for Reshaping Construction Practice - Proceedings of the 2010 Construction Research Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1274-1283

  Abdelgawad, Mohamed ^a   Fayek, Aminah Robinson ^a   Martinez, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ENBRIDGE PIPELINES INC   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; FAULT-TREES; FUZZY ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; FUZZY FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING; LINGUISTIC TERMS; POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; TOP EVENT PROBABILITY;

BORING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DIRECTIONAL DRILLING; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

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EID: 77956336351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41109(373)128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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