Risk-Based Engineering / Springer Series in Reliability Engineering (PDF)

Prof. Prabhakar V. Varde is an expert in the field of application of reliability and probabilistic risk assessment to nuclear plants and is currently working as Head of the Research Reactor Services Division & Senior Professor at Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India), where he also serves in advisory and administrative capacities in Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), India and the Homi Bhabha National Institute, India. He is the founder and President of the Society for Reliability & Safety (SRESA), and is one of the Chief Editors for its international journal- Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. He completed his B.E. (Mech.) from Government Engineering College Rewa in 1983, and joined BARC, Mumbai, in 1984, where he as a Shift Engineer in the Reactor Operations Division until 1995. In 1996 he received his PhD in Reliability Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, following which hehas worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, South Korea and a Visiting Professor, at Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at University of Maryland, USA.Prof Varde is also a consultant/specialist/Indian Expert for many international organizations, including the OECD/NEA (WGRISK) Paris, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, University of Maryland, USA, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, South Korea, etc. Based on his research & development work, he has published over 200 publications in journals and conferences, including 11 conference proceedings books.



Prof Michael Pecht is a world-renowned expert in strategic planning, design, test, and risk assessment of electronics and information systems. Prof Pecht has a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a Professional Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, an ASME Fellow, an SAE