Evaluation of a Design for Inconceivable Event Occurrence

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John had this paper stored in his PEIRCE 2 notebook There is a note in John's handwriting on the title "Recd 4/18/89, JNW" Gustaf Ostberg is professor eng materials, Lund Inst Tech, Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden Abstracct: The importance of inconceivable events increases with growing complexity of designs and increasing consequences of failures. Airplane crashes and accidents of nuclear power plants are spectacular exmples but also more mundane cases warrant consideration. It is difficult to deal with inconceivable events because they usuallyd epend on interference by some factors which ar not readily includuded in the models and systems used for design of industrial products with respect to normal performance. To be able to diminish the risk of occurrence of inconceivable events one has to recognize that detection of such phenomena requires another state of mind than that typical in normal desig work. There are organizational and magerial obstacles that may prevent measures to be taken in this direction. Hence success in dealing with inconceivable events means that one has to go beyond present practice in industrial design.

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