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PRINCIPLES OF PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL SAFETY ENGINEERING

CODE 90455
ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022
CREDITS
  • 6 cfu during the 2nd year of 9269 INGEGNERIA MECCANICA - PROGETTAZIONE E PRODUZIONE(LM-33) - GENOVA
  • 5 cfu during the 1st year of 10377 SAFETY ENGINEERING FOR TRANSPORT, LOGISTICS AND PRODUCTION(LM-26) - GENOVA
  • SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-IND/17
    LANGUAGE English
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
  • SEMESTER 1° Semester
    MODULES This unit is a module of:
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The course is aimed at studying various aspects of safety and security in industrial applications including: chemical plants, oil & gas, dangerous goods handling etc. Starting form reliability analysis, through Bayesian statistics, reliability modelling and simulation, failure analysis the course will guide the identification of possible risk factors and will presents the most promising methodological approaches. Two practical assignment will be given focusing on industrial incidents involving chemical spills and complex plants failures.

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The course addresses structurally the problem of the safety of industrial settlements and industrial plants in general, the introduction provides a basic framework and the connection with the notions learned in the Degree course with the possible completion of the existing "gap" . Part I addresses the structural patterns of cuts and collapses of industrial constructions, structures and carpentry as events often at the root of accidents. Through the analysis of theories and models, the student learns the "safe" design principles in the various scenarios considered. Part II addresses the consequences that industrial accidents can have on the environment and on people by emphasizing causal links and the interconnection between the structural, operational and human aspects of the incident phenomenon. The course is purely applicative with reference to industrial sectors considered to be "high risk" (chemical, nuclear, oil & gas, etc.).

    TEACHING METHODS

    Theoretical lectures with support of slides and in-classroom exercises, assigments and seminars.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Introduction and key concepts

     
     

    • Concept of risk and industrial risk

     

    • Elements of statistics and probability theory

     

    • Bayesian statistics applied to the industrial sector

     

    • MechStructural mechanics

     

    • Determination of stress characteristics

     

    • Recall on the solid of De Saint-Venant

     

    • Matrixl and tensorial notation elements

    Part I – Accidents resulting from collapse in industrial buildings, structures and carpentry

     
    Axial loading

    Torsion

    Pure bending

    Beams

    Shearing stresses

    Stress transformations

    Principal stresses

    Beam deflection

    Columns

    Energy methods

    Accidents resulting from collapse in industrial buildings, structures and carpentry

     

    Assignments: Analysis of the collapse scenarios of an industrial chimney design a EOT crane using Eurocode.

    Part II – Simulation models for industrial accident scenarios

     
    • Probability distributions

     

     
    • Montecarlo simulation

     

     
    • Reliability, Availability and Sustainability and implications for accident scenario
     
    • RBD, blocks modelling
     

     

    Assignment TARAS: FMECA risk analysis on an accident scenario in a nuclear plant with FTA, ETA and RBD modeling techniques

     


    • Estimating models and redundancy criteria

    • Estimating the parameters reliability

    • Fallout Templates for Release of Dangerous Substances in the Environment: Evaporating Pool, Horizontal Jet Release, Vertical Jet Release

     

    Assignment SLAB: Designing an Emergency Pollution Discharge Tower (chimney): Process and structural aspects.

     
    • Human Factor: The role of the "human error" component in industrial accidents
    • Mistake proofing.

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Reference textbooks

    • Beer, Johnston & Dewolf, Mechanics Of Materials 
      McGraw-Hill series in mechanical engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2004, ISBN: 978-0-07-0535107

    • Riccardo Baldacci, Scienza delle Costruzioni, Vol II, Fondamenti di Meccanica delle Strutture (I-III, V-VI, IX), Edizioni UTET Torino, ISBN 88-02-04634-4, 1997
     
    • Leone Corradi Dell'Acqua, Meccanica delle strutture 2/ed, Vol III, Mc Graw Hill, ISBN: 978-88386-72309
     
    • Donald Ermak, SLAB User Manual, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, 1990 (Public Domain)
     
    • DoD, Applied R&M manual for defense systems, USA,
     
    • Patrick O'Connor, Practical reliability engineering, John Wiley & Sons Fifth Edition., UK, 2012.
     
    • Riccardo Baldacci, Scienza delle Costruzioni, Vol I, Fondamenti di Meccanica dei Solidi (I-IV, VIII), Edizioni UTET Torino, ISBN 88-02-03853-8, 1997
       

     

    Deepening textbooks

    • Armando Monte, Elementi di Impianti Industriali Volume 1, Edizioni Libreria Cortina, Torino.
     
    • James Zapert, Richard Londergan, Harold Thistle Evaluation of dense gas simulation models, EPA, USA, 1991
     
    • Roberto Revetria,  Roberto Mosca  “Distributed Simulation in Industry” chapter 2 from Dr. Evon M. Abu- Taieh, “Simulation and Modeling: Current Technologies and Application” ISBN 978-159904198-8 Idea Group, Inc., Hershey, PA 17033, USA, 2007.
     
    • Maurizio Catino, Da Chernobyl a Linate: incidenti tecnologici o errori organizzativi?, Bruno Mondadori Editore, Italia, 2006.

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    ROBERTO REVETRIA (President)

    FAEZEH BAGHERI

    LORENZO DAMIANI

    FLAVIO TONELLI (President Substitute)

    LESSONS

    Class schedule

    All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The exam provides for a single evaluation of each of the following elements, the vote being the sum of the individual evaluations:

    1. The student's delivery of the 4 calculation reports related to the Assignments,

    2. Oral discussion of an in-depth report on one of the lessons discussed

    3. A multiple-choice test on all subjects covered by the course.

    4. Evaluation of the frequency of teaching activities (lessons and exercises) proposed in the classroom

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    Evaluation of the level of understanding of the theoretical concepts, evaluation of the practical design and calculation skills, evaluation of the comunication competences in a session of a real life project presentation.

    Exam schedule

    Date Time Location Type Notes
    19/01/2022 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale
    02/02/2022 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale
    30/05/2022 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale
    28/06/2022 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale
    14/07/2022 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale
    16/09/2022 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Exercises, software use and seminars are offered during the lectures period.