Reliability and Maintenance: Networks and Systems

✍ Scribed by Frank Beichelt, Peter Tittmann

• Publisher: Chapman & Hall / CRC Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reliability and Maintenance: Networks and Systems gives an up-to-date presentation of system and network reliability analysis as well as maintenance planning with a focus on applicable models. Balancing theory and practice, it presents state-of-the-art research in key areas of reliability and maintenance theory and includes numerous examples and exercises. Every chapter starts with theoretical foundations and basic models and leads to more sophisticated models and ongoing research.

The first part of the book introduces structural reliability theory for binary coherent systems. Within the framework of these systems, the second part covers network reliability analysis. The third part presents simply structured maintenance policies that may help with the cost-optimal scheduling of preventive maintenance. Each part can be read independently of one another.

Suitable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in engineering, operations research, computer science, and applied mathematics, this book offers a thorough guide to the mathematical modeling of reliability and maintenance. It supplies the necessary theoretical and practical details for readers to perform reliability analyses and apply maintenance policies in their organizations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
I. Coherent Binary Systems......Page 14
1. Fundamental System Structures......Page 16
2. Complex Systems......Page 32
3. Lifetime of Coherent Systems......Page 86
II. Network Reliability......Page 96
4. Modeling Network Reliability with Graphs......Page 98
5. Reliability Analysis......Page 112
6. Connectedness in Undirected Graphs......Page 148
7. Partitions of the VertexSet and Vertex Separators......Page 178
8. Algorithmic Aspects of Network Reliability......Page 208
III. Maintenance Models......Page 234
9. Random Point Processes in System Replacement......Page 236
10. Time-Based System Replacement......Page 258
11. System Replacement Basedon Cost Limits......Page 270
12. Maintenance Models with General Degree of Repair......Page 286
13. Inspection of Systems......Page 298
Bibliography......Page 314
List of Symbols......Page 338

✦ Subjects

Машиностроение и материалообработка;Теория надежности;