Relationship between Experimental Mechanics of Solids and Safety Engineering

Abstract:

Most incidents, serious incidents, accidents and disasters (catastrophes) connected with the irregular work of technical devices is caused by mechanical damage. Despite this, responses originating from the fields of psychology, sociology and medicine prevail in practical approaches to preventing accidents. In the author’s opinion this is the result of the low level technological knowledge amongst those involved in safety engineering. Technical education in the area of the mechanics is indispensable. A key part of this education, not just for engineers but also lawyers and others who work in safety regulation services, is explanatory experiments. In this article, the particular significance of scientific experiments in decreasing all factors posing a threat is shown. This article does not report concretely performed research, but rather attempts to propose a program of cooperation between different areas of the engineer’s art.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 240)
• Pages: 250-254
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.240.250
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: Jerzy Pisarek*
• Keywords: Experimental Mechanic, Factor of Danger, Factor of Theats, Human Factor, Mechanical Experiment in Education, Safety Engineering, Service Life, Validation of the Software

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