Adoption of new advanced computational techniques to hazards ranking in LNG carrier operations

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 72, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-44

  Nwaoha, Thaddeus C ^a   Yang, Zaili ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Bonsall, Stephen ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidential reasoning; LNG carrier risk fuzzy set; Maritime risk analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; FAULT TREE ANALYSES (FTA); FUZZY EVIDENTIAL REASONING; LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS CARRIERS; LNG CARRIERS; MARITIME RISKS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; HAZARDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RISK PERCEPTION;

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS;

BULK CARRIER; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84880323080     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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