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A Safety Instrumented Function, or SIF, is one or more components designed to execute a specific...

Fluid pressure exerts force on any surface area it contacts, as described by the formula F = PA. One...

As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, instrumentation safety may be broadly divided into two categories: the...

In reliability engineering, it is important to be able to quantity the reliability (or conversely, the probability of...

While the term “probability” may evoke images of imprecision, probability is in fact an exact mathematical...

This chapter discusses instrumentation issues related to industrial process safety. Instrumentation safety may be...