Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
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Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Infrastructure, Energy and Industry
Reliability and resilience engineering studies how engineered systems fail and how they are designed, tested and maintained to keep working or to recover quickly.
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The model
From a failure rate to a safety integrity level: how often a protection fails on demand
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a failure rate to a safety integrity level: how often a protection fails on demand
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
For reliability, safety and asset engineers, safety case authors and regulators who need to quantify failure rates, build fault and event trees, set safety integrity targets and plan inspection and maintenance of ageing assets.
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| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 4 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 3 |
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 3 |
| Aspect | In this area |
|---|---|
| Technology that helps | Digital twins, sensors and robotics for inspection. |
| Risk technology creates | Cascading cyber-physical failure and vendor lock-in. |
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