Bücher der Reihe Risk Engineering

This monograph provides a comparative study between failure probabilities and collapse frequencies in structural bridge engineering. The book includes available data and case studies and thus presents patterns to identify potential weaknesses and challenges in bridge maintenance.

Following an introduction to the subject and a discussion of the most central paradigms and methodologies, the book provides an overview of the structure of this field of science and technology.

This book reviews construction safety measures in different regions of the world, and provides detailed evidence of the need for construction safety measures. Gathers and presents worldwide construction accident statistics, and costs of construction accidents.

This book examines dynamic analysis and its applications, covering topics such as statistics of motion and dynamic loading, damping modeling and measurement, finite element analysis, structural health monitoring and human body vibrations and others.

Following an introduction to the subject and a discussion of the most central paradigms and methodologies, the book provides an overview of the structure of this field of science and technology.

This monograph presents an analysis of construction safety problems and on-site safety measures from an economist's point of view. Moreover, the author covers an analysis on construction safety knowledge sharing by means of updatable mobile technology such as apps in Androids and iOS platform mobile devices.

This monograph covers different aspects of sensor network security including new emerging technologies. The target audience primarily comprises experts and practitioners in the field of sensor network security, but the book may also be beneficial for researchers in academia as well as for graduate students.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety. It discusses the concept of safety from engineering, philosophy, and psychology angles, and considers various definitions of safety and its relationship to risk. Examining the categorization of safety and the measurement of risk, risk cultures, basic human needs and decision-making under uncertainty, the contributions demonstrate the practical implications and applications in areas such as health behavior, aviation and sports.Topics covered include:What is "safety" and is there "optimal safety" in engineering?Philosophical perspectives on safety and riskPsychological perspectives on perceived safety: social factors of feeling safePsychological perspectives on perceived safety: zero-risk bias, feelings & learned carelessnessPerception of aviation safety Intended for both practitioners and academic researchers, this book appeals to anyone interested in decision-making and the perception and establishment of safety.