Search for dissertations about: "Factor of safety"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 190 swedish dissertations containing the words Factor of safety.
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1. Is it safe? safety factor reasoning in policy-making under uncertainty
University dissertation from Stockholm : KTHAbstract : This thesis examines the practice of using safety factors in decision-making under uncertainty, in particular in the areas of toxicology and civil engineering. The aim is to expose and clarify some of the philosophical issues surrounding the practice. READ MORE
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2. Economic Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Investments
University dissertation from Göteborg : University of GothenburgAbstract : Paper 1 (with Catalin Starica): This study conducts an in-depth analysis of the association between a unique ten-dimensional set of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scores and firm profitability, as measured by Return on Assets (ROA). We find that non-linear (semi or non-parametric) regression methods bring important improvements in explaining profitability relative to a classical linear approach. READ MORE
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3. Fire safety design of road tunnels
University dissertation from Lund University. Department of Fire Safety EngineeringAbstract : This thesis can be described as a journey in performance-based fire safety design. Along the way questions such as what fire safety is, how it can be measured, whether we are posing the right questions, or engineer the best solutions, have arisen. READ MORE
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4. Fatigue Assessment and Extreme Response Prediction of Ship Structures
University dissertation from Göteborg : Chalmers University of TechnologyAbstract : In this thesis, a simplified narrow-band approximation model is proposed to estimate fatigue damage of ship structures, and an efficient method for extreme response predictions is also developed using upcrossing spectrums of ship responses.The proposed fatigue model includes two main parameters, significant stress range hs and zero upcrossing frequency fz. READ MORE
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5. Dealing with uncertainty
University dissertation from Stockholm : KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyAbstract : Uncertainty is, it seems, more or less constantly present in our lives. Even so, grasping the concept philosophically is far from trivial. In this doctoral thesis, uncertainty and its conceptual companion information are studied. Axiomatic analyses are provided and numerical measures suggested. READ MORE
