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These three volumes comprise the papers presented at the ESREL '97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability held in Lisbon, Portugal, 17-20 June 1997. The purpose of the annual ESREL conferences is to provide a forum for the presentation of technical and scientific papers covering both methods and applications of safety and reliability to a wide range of industrial sectors and technical disciplines and, in so doing, to enhance cross-fertilization between them.
A broad view is taken of safety and reliability which includes probabilistically-based methods, or, more generally, methods that deal with the quantification of the uncertainty in the knowledge of the real world and with decision-making under this uncertainty.
The areas covered include: design and product liability; availability, reliability and maintainability; assessment and management of risks to technical systems; health and the environment; and mathematical methods of reliability and statistical analysis of data.
The organization of the book closely follows the sessions of the conference with each of the three volumes containing papers from two parallel sessions, comprising a total of 270 papers by authors from 35 countries.
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A D V A N C E S IN SAFETY A N D RELIABILITY Proceedings of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability 17 - 20 June, 1997, Lisbon Portugal Volume 1 Elsevier Science Internet H o m e p a g e - http://www.elsevier.nl Full catalogue information on all books, journals and electronic products. Related Journals Free specimen copy gladly sent on request: Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Lang]'ord Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, U.K. Advances in Engineering Software Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Computers and Fluids Computers and Structures Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements Engineering Failure Analysis Engineering Structures Finite Elements in Analysis and Design International Journal of Solids and Structures Ocean Engineering Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics Reliability Engineering and System Safety Solids and Structures Structural Safety Thin-Walled Structures ADVANCES IN S AFETY AND RELIABILITY Proceedings of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability 17 - 20 June, 1997, Lisbon Portugal Volume 1 Edited by C. Guedes Soares Technical University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal PERGAMON U.K. ElsevierScience Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford. OX5 1GB, England U.S.A. ElsevierScience Inc., 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, 10010, U.S.A. JAPAN ElsevierScience Japan, Tsunashima Building Annex, 3-20-12 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan Copyright © 1997 Elsevier Science All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted m any form or by any means; electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. First edition 1997 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this title is available from the Library of Congress. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data IA catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-08-042835-5 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Redwood Books Ltd. T A B L E OF C O N T E N T S Volume 1 AI: Risk Based Regulations The Regulatory Review of Safety-Related Information Regarding Underground Radioactive Waste Disposal in England and Wales T h o m p s o n , B. G. J. and Williams, C.R ................................................................................................ 3 Developments and Practice To