Reliability, Safety and Hazard Assessment for Risk-Based Technologies / Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (PDF)

field of fatigue and fracture and has published more than 100 scientific articles in books and journals, more than 100 conference publications and has edited 4 book volumes. He has developed test systems for use in academia, R&D and industry during his tenure as Technical Director at BiSS Research, Bangalore; at IIT Madras, he teaches courses relating to Fracture Mechanics, Design with Advanced Materials, Product Design, DFMA. He is a voting rights member of ASTM International (Technical Committees, D-30, E-08 and E-28), current Chair of the Materials Processing Technical Committee of the Materials Division of ASME, Chair of Technical committee (Mechanical, Aerospace) of InSIS and Chair of the Chennai Chapter of Society for Failure Analysis. He serves in the Editorial boards of Journal of Structural Longevity, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale (IGF Journal of Fracture and Structural Integrity), Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. Prof Prakash received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras (now Chennai); Master's degree (by Research) and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He is a member of several technical societies (including the Indian Structural Integrity Society, Society for Failure Analysis and Indian Institute of Metals) and has won several prestigious awards (Binani Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals), scholarships and Erasmus-Mundus Fellowships. He is the recipient of Distinguished Fellow of the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES) 2015.



Dr Gopika Vinod is a faculty member and the Head of the Probabilistic Safety Section in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. She received her PhD in Reliability Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, after which she has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Steinbies Advanced Risk Technologies, Germany and as a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She was a recipient of the DAE Young Engineer Award in 2007 and has been actively involved in reliability, safety and risk analysis of Indian nuclear power plants, and nuclear and chemical facilities. She has worked on the development of reliability based operator support systems such as risk monitors and symptom based diagnostic systems for Indian nuclear power plants. Her other areas of research activities include risk informed in-service inspection, reliability of computer based systems, dynamic reliability analysis, human reliability analysis, etc. She is in the editorial board of international Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, and the Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. She also serves as Journal Referee to IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Risk Analysis, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Engineering and Design, etc.