Posted in Rail Safety, Systems of Systems, tagged AS 4292, catenary wire failure, Dynamic brake, integration, interface hazards, Systems of systems on 07/03/2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the MIL-STD-882 lexicon of hazard analyses there’s one called a System Hazard Analysis which according to the standard is intended to identify interaction and interface related hazards.
This sounds wonderful in theory and I’ve certainly seen a number toy examples touted in various text books on what it look like. But, to be honest, I’ve never really been convinced by the examples given. So the subject of this post is to give a real world example.
Posted in Climate risk, Systems of Systems, tagged fluvial pressure, glacial retreat, Mississippi river floods, National infrastructure, Old River Control Structure, single point of failure, US Army Corp. of Engineers on 28/08/2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Mississippi River’s Old River Control Structure, a National Single Point of Failure? Given the recent events in Fukushima and our subsequent western cultural obsession with the radiological consequences, perhaps it’s appropriate to reflect on other non-nuclear vulnerabilities. As a case in point what about the Old River Control Structure erected by those busy chaps [...]
Posted in Systems of Systems, tagged AIAA Reno 2006, emergent behaviour, Paper, Systems of systems on 02/07/2011 | 1 Comment »
Just discovered a paper I co-authored for the 2006 AIAA Reno Conference on the Risk & Safety Aspects of Systems of Systems. A little disjointed but does cover some interesting problem areas for systems of systems.
I tend towards the integrative rather than reductionist view of engineering and science. I'm interested in emergence, networks, relationships and interfaces as they apply to safety.
