Our staff members prepare papers and reports for presentation at various technical conferences. Below are selected papers and resources that APT personnel have authored.
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Presentation
- PRET-T: A New Generation of Risk Modeling – Population Risk for Explosives Transport by Truck (PRET-T) offers a new capacity to assess and manage the transportation risks of explosives by truck by comparing the calculated risk of alternate transportation routes.
Guidebook
Papers
Risk Management Resources
- T-19-00700 Probabilistic Risk Assessment
- T-12-00500 Understanding and Applying Total System Risk Summing
- T-09-01400 ART – APT Risk Management Tool for Performing Risk Assessments
- T-08-00600 A Risk Management Concept Combining The Disciplines of System Safety, Range Safety, and Explosives Safety
- T-08-01100 Road Signs In Risk Space
Range and Missile Flight Safety Resources
- TP-01-02 Accepting Necessary Risk – A Case Study Demonstrating the Application of Risk Acceptance Principles
- TP-01-04 Using the RCC 8-Step Process to Perform Quantitative Risk Assessments on Reusable Launch Vehicles (X-34)
- TP-01-05 Prediction of the Probability of an Event by the Comparative Experience Method
Explosives Safety Resources
- T-09-01900 Investigating the SAFER/SciPan Kinetic Energy/Mass Bin Concept
- T-07-01600 A New Tool for Managing Risk Associated with Commercial Explosives Operations
- TP-01-01 Criteria Selection for Risk Based Explosive Safety Standards
- TP-00-01 Status of the Risk-Based Explosives Safety Criteria Team
- TP-00-02 Risk-Based Explosives Safety Modeling
- TP-00-03 Comparison of International QRA models on the basis of the “Setup and Results of The Joint UK/Australian 40 tonne Donor/Acceptor Trial
- TP-99-01 Governing Safety With Risk-Based Methods
General System Safety Resources
- T-08-01200 Finding all the Hazards: How do we know we’re done?
- T-07-00700 Defining a “Safety Center of Excellence”
- T-07-00500 Some Common Errors in Analysis: Independent Reviews Uncover Flaws
- T-07-00400 Economy-Based Countermeasure Decisions— Tutorial Guidance for System Safety Engineers
- System Safety Performance Level Model
- T-05-00900 Summing Risk – An International Workshop and Its Results
- T-04-00100 The Five What’s of System Safety
- T-04-00200 A Comparison of QRA Methods used by DOD for Explosives and Range Safety with Methods used by NRC and EPA
- T-04-00300 Unmanned Vehicle Safety: 10 Commandments to Live By
- T-04-00600 Universal Risk Scales – A Tool for Developing Risk Criteria by Consensus
- T-04-01200 The RAC Matrix: A Universal Tool or a Toolkit?
- TP-01-03 Definition and Verification of Critical Safety Functions in Software
- TP-01-06 Pascal and the Risk Assessment Code (RAC) Matrix
Industrial and Quality Engineering Resources
- TP-01-07 An Automated Solver to Determine ML Estimates for the AMSAA Discrete Reliability Growth Model
- TP-00-04 Simulation Optimization Research: Transition Methods for a Two-Phased Strategy
Lessons Learned
Software Resources