FMEA of a tailings dam

Georisk

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-104

  dos Santos, Ricardo Neves Correia ^a   Caldeira, Laura Maria Mello Saraiva ^a   Serra, João Paulo Bilé ^a  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

Author keywords

control measures; detection measures; FMEA; qualitative risk analysis; tailings dam

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAILINGS DAM;

EID: 84860321737     PISSN: 17499518     EISSN: 17499526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17499518.2011.615751     Document Type: Article

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