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Personnel Airdrop Risk Assessment Using Bootstrap Sampling, Wonsik Kim
Personnel Airdrop Risk Assessment Using Bootstrap Sampling, Wonsik Kim
Theses and Dissertations
Previous work on personnel airdrop problems involving jumpers has been (1) event-oriented entanglement rates, (2) number of canopy bumps, (3) landing injuries, and (4) deaths. The thesis expands this area of research by developing cumulative distribution functions of maximum possible chute entanglement risk for the C-17 using bootstrap techniques. By comparing the effects of various C-17 aircraft configurations on the entanglement CDF, this thesis shows that under certain configurations the risk of centerline entanglement for the C-17 is less than for the C-141.
Estimating Risks In Emerging Soil Remediation Technologies, Thomas J. Timmerman
Estimating Risks In Emerging Soil Remediation Technologies, Thomas J. Timmerman
Theses and Dissertations
The Department of Energy is focusing a long-term development effort on producing cheaper, safer, and faster state-of-the-art soil remediation technologies. To assist with the management of these innovative technology development projects, ways of quantifiably measuring technical risk were investigated through a detailed literature review. 'Technical risk' was defined in this study as the combination of the consequences of undesired events and their likelihood. Careful design of the inputs into a technology selection decision support system accounted for the uncertainty in forecasting final characteristics of remediation technologies still in the early phases of R&D. Experts made subjective probability estimates of these …