Risk Management in Engineering - Doc

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Risk Management in Engineering - Doc

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RISK MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING

Risk management in Engineering•Risk management is generally considered as external component of any kind of project which is very important for the project. •The main objective of engineering includes the mitigation or elimination of the risks and if this is done completely then it might lead to various types of problems.•The main responsibility of the engineers is also associated with ensuring the fact that their work is completed in accordance to the purpose that has been intended along with being according to the level or performance and also for the purpose of avoiding the failures.•Reviewing of past mistakes can be done by the engineers after facing failures in the past projects which would be initially leading to the preparation of a better plans in order to make sure there does not occur any type of risk in the future •The evolvement of engineering is going on from last few decades associated with various kind of new innovations along with integration of the lessons which has been learnt from the failure which has occurred related to the laws and the standards.

Various engineering FailureCase 1: LARGE AND LOCALISED Granville train accident 1977•The Granville rail disaster occurred in the year of 1977 on 18th January.at Granville, South Wales which is a western suburb of Sydney. •This happened when one of the crowded commuter train was derailed which was running into the support of the road bridge which ultimately collapsed onto two of the train’s passenger’s carriages. •While approaching towards Granville railway station it left the rails and hit a row of support of the overhead bold Street Bridge which was constructed by using steel and concrete. •Ultimately the derailed engine and first two carriages passed the bridge. After this thee first carriage broke from the other carriages and due to this Carriage one was torn open after colliding with the mast beside the track, and this ultimately resulted in killing of eight passengers. •The other carriages ultimately resulted in a halt with the second carriage. On 31 May, 1889 the failure of the Souethfork Dam took place, which is also termed as the Johnstown flood, that occurred in the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Various engineering FailureCase 1: LARGE AND LOCALISED Granville train accident 1977Reasons for Failure:•After enquiring it was found that the major reason lying behind the crash was the unsatisfactory conditions of the permanent way and due to poor fastening of the tracks made the track to spread and this ultimately led to the leaving of the front wheel of the locomotive to get off the rails. •Another major reason lying behind the failure of this engineering work was because of low maintenance of the 46 Class locomotive which was having a faulty L6wheel which was discovered to be totally unserviceable in the year of 1976 on the month of August. •Other major factor included the structure of the bridge which means when the bridge was built, the base of its deck was found to be one meter lower than the road.•Besides this concrete was also added on top in order to build the surface up level with the road.Effects of this failure:This is considered as one of the worst rail disaster in the Australian history and was also having the greatest loss of life in a confined area where around 84 people died and more than 213 peoples were injured and around 1300 got affected due to this.

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