Reliability engineering: methods and applications

✍ Scribed by Ram, Mangey (ed.)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Series: Advanced research in reliability and system assurance engineering
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Over the last 50 years, the theory and the methods of reliability analysis have developed significantly. Therefore, it is very important to the reliability specialist to be informed of each reliability measure. This book will provide historical developments, current advancements, applications, numerous examples, and many case studies to bring the reader up-to-date with the advancements in this area. It covers reliability engineering in different branches, includes applications to reliability engineering practice, provides numerous examples to illustrate the theoretical results, and offers case studies along with real-world examples. This book is useful to engineering students, research scientist, and practitioners working in the field of reliability"--

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Editor......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Chapter 1: Preventive Maintenance Modeling: State of the Art......Page 17
Chapter 2: Inspection Maintenance Modeling for Technical Systems: An Overview......Page 57
Chapter 3: Application of Stochastic Processes in Degradation Modeling: An Overview......Page 95
Chapter 4: Building a Semi-automatic Design for Reliability Survey with Semantic Pattern Recognition......Page 123
Chapter 5: Markov Chains and Stochastic Petri Nets for Availability and Reliability Modeling......Page 143
Chapter 6: An Overview of Fault Tree Analysis and Its Application in Dual Purposed Cask Reliability in an Accident Scenario......Page 169
Chapter 7: An Overview on Failure Rates in Maintenance Policies......Page 181
Chapter 8: Accelerated Life Tests with Competing Failure Modes: An Overview......Page 213
Chapter 9: European Reliability Standards......Page 239
Chapter 10: Time-Variant Reliability Analysis Methods for Dynamic Structures......Page 275
Chapter 11: Latent Variable Models in Reliability......Page 297
Chapter 12: Expanded Failure Modes and Effects Analysis: A Different Approach for System Reliability Assessment......Page 321
Chapter 13: Reliability Assessment and Probabilistic Data Analysis of Vehicle Components and Systems......Page 353
Chapter 14: Maintenance Policy Analysis of a Marine Power Generating Multi-state System......Page 377
Chapter 15: Vulnerability Discovery and Patch Modeling: State of the Art......Page 417
Chapter 16: Signature Reliability Evaluations: An Overview of Different Systems......Page 437
Index......Page 455

✦ Subjects

Reliability (Engineering)