Aircraft system safety: Military and civil aeronautical applications
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Features
- Covers how to integrate safety assessment into a product’s design and lifecycle and meeting stakeholders expectations
- Draws on diverse sources to provide a wealth of concepts, tools and approaches
- Brings the theory of aircraft system safety together into a useful reference
Summary
Providing a foundation for understanding this dynamic and evolving field, Aircraft System Safety explores methods for developing large transport aircraft systems. The book describes safety criteria, including objective targets which can be achieved or monitored and outlines the methods involved in auditing arguments. The author discusses system integration and how best to argue a system’s integrity. He covers the practical aspects of safety, such as integrating safety assessment into a product’s design and life cycle and meeting stakeholder expectations. The book pulls together a wealth of ideas, concepts, tools, and approaches to concisely present the theory of safety in a useful reference guide.
Table of Contents
Safety Within the Legal Framework
Introduction
Civil Liability
Sentencing Trends
Organizational Responses
Implications on the Engineer
Discussion
Further Reading
The Safety Concept
Understanding Safety
The Importance of Safety
Safety Segments
Ensuring Safety
Standards and Regulations
Introduction
Airworthiness
Source of Regulations
Civil Regulatory Authorities
Military Regulatory Authorities
Health and Safety Regulations
The Impact on Organizations
The Impact on Safety Management Systems
Discussion
Risk Based Approach
Introduction
Defining Risk
Assessing Risk
ALARP
Managing the Risk
Summarising the Risk-Based Approach
Discussion
Further Reading
Goal Based Approach
Introduction
Probability Targets vs Failure Severity Levels
Severity and Probability
Summary
Combining the Risk- and Goal Based Criteria
Discussion
Hazards
Understanding Hazards and their Causes
Identifying Hazards
Assessing Hazards
Equipment Failure and Faults
Hazards of a Normal Functioning System
Systemic Failures
Assessment Approach
Precedence of Hazard Resolution
Safety Assessment Tools and Techniques
Discussion
THe Fail Safe Dimension
Introduction
Defences Against Failure
Fail Sage Principles
Applying Fail-Safe Principles
Discussion
The Safety Assessment
History
Aims and Objective of a System Assessment
The System and its Relationship to Safety
Planning the Safety Assessment Process
Modelling the Safety Assessment Process
Generating the System Safety Assessment Reports
Discussion
The Safety Case
History
Developing the Requirement
Core Component
The Safety Case Report
Discussion
Numerical Probabilistic Approach
Introduction
The Fundamental Concepts
Applied Quantitative Assessment
Assessment Process
Specific Issues of Concern
Determining Failure Rates of Basic Events
Discussion
Minimum Equipment Lists
Introduction
The Concept of MEL
Generic Approach
Process
Equipment Included in an MMEL/MEL
Discussion
Further Reading
The Safety Management System
Introduction
What is a SMS?
Safety Culture
Developing an SMS
Discussion
Further Reading
Concluding Observations
Aviation Trends
Safety Assessments/Safety Cases
New Technologies
Safety Engineering Competence
Safety Culture
Impact on Projects
Final Remarks
Editorial Reviews
“… a very useful reference which I shall be using in my taught courses. I will recommend it as a text for future Safety Assessment courses.”
—Simon Place, Lecturer in Air Transport Engineering, Cranfield University, UK
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