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SA Lecture by Joe Fragola |
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Date: February 28, 2006
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: NASA LaRC, Bldg 1209, Rm 180
Additional Information: Presentation (PDF)
Safety and Reliability Analysis for NASA's Exploration Systems Architecture Study
Joe Fragola, Valador, Inc.
The Safety and Reliability Lead for the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) will provide an overview of how safety and reliability assessments were used during ESAS to actively influence aerospace designs. He will describe a heritage approach to risk-based design, with particular emphasis given to a probabilistic approach to accounting for design heritage and learning in risk assessment.
Bio: Mr. Fragola has over 35 years of experience working in reliability and risk technology in both the aerospace and nuclear industries. He is a Professional Engineer and received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York. In the past he has worked for Grumman Aerospace Corporation, and IEEE at their Headquarters in New York. He was recently a Principal Scientist at SAIC.
Mr. Fragola has lectured widely throughout the US, South America and in Europe. He has also given workshops and lectures in Japan, Russia, and Israel. He is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of risk analysis, risk and reliability database development, and human reliability analysis. He has participated in several dozen risk assessments, and was the Principal Investigator of the landmark, NASA sponsored, 1995 launch to landing risk assessment of the space shuttle, which still remains the only published work on the subject of integrated shuttle risk.
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