Article | REF: SE4070 V1

Preliminary risk analysis of dynamic systems

Author: Jean-Pierre SIGNORET

Publication date: April 10, 2005

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5. Dynamic systems

5.1 Introduction

Since the beginning of this article, we've been using the term "dynamic systems" as if it were self-evident. It is now necessary to specify a little more precisely what this term implies in our context.

A glance at the dictionary reveals :

dynamic, "considering things in their movement, their becoming".

This suits our purpose well, since we're concerned here with industrial systems whose states change over time as a function of the hazards (failures, repairs, reconfigurations, weather...) to which they are subjected.

On reflection, it might be hard to find an industrial system that isn't dynamic! A simple "repairable" component...

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