This text gives a detailed description of practical risk and safety analysis methods, tried and tested in over 100 process industry projects. The aim is to provide the methods and data needed by practicing safety engineers, as well as practical advice on how to use them. Subjects covered are risk acceptability, hazard identification methods, probability and frequency calculation, human error, failure rate data, fire explosion and gas dispersion, emergency action, integrated risk analysis and safety management. Road and ship transport, risk analysis methods and environmental risk analysis, are...

This book describes both theoretical and experimental aspects of optical soliton generation and of soliton properties. The basic theory of soliton generation in fiber is described, numerical studies of nonlinear propagation effects in fibers are considered, as well as soliton-soliton interactions, the effects of high order dispersion and birefringence on soliton propagation as well as limiting effects of femtosecond soliton generation. Technical aspects are concerned with long distance transmission systems and the implementation of high bit rate semiconductor laser based soliton systems in...