"Comprehensive reference covering methods and principles for reducing risk and improving reliability -Offers an overview of standard methods for reliability improvement and risk reduction -Introduces new methods including separation, segmentation and inverting -Covers a universal set of risk reduction methods and principles which transcend engineering -Includes case studies and application examples Market description: Primary: Engineers in industry, including safety professionals, risk managers, reliability consultants, design engineers and reliability and risk researchers. Secondary: Graduate students in reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering electrical engineering, electronics, chemical engineering, civil engineering and nuclear engineering"-- Provided by publisher.