Reliability Engineering: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Alessandro Birolini (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 627
• Edition: 6th ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows how to build in, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability & availability of components, equipment, systems. It presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice, and is based on the author's 30 years experience in this field, half in industry and half as Professor of Reliability Engineering at the ETH, Zurich. The structure of the book allows rapid access to practical results. Besides extensions to cost models and approximate expressions, new in this edition are investigations on common cause failures, phased-mission systems, availability demonstration and estimation, confidence limits at system level, trend tests for early failures or wearout, as well as a review of maintenance strategies, an introduction to Petri nets and dynamic FTA, and a set of problems for home-work. Methods and tools are given in a way that they can be tailored to cover different reliability requirement levels and be used for safety analysis as well. This book is a textbook establishing a link between theory and practice, with a large number of tables, figures, and examples to support the practical aspects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Basic Concepts, Quality and Reliability Assurance of Complex Equipment and Systems....Pages 1-24
Reliability Analysis During the Design Phase (Nonrepairable Elements up to System Failure)....Pages 25-80
Qualification Tests for Components and Assemblies....Pages 81-111
Maintainability Analysis....Pages 112-143
Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality....Pages 144-166
Reliability and Availability of Repairable Systems....Pages 167-290
Statistical Quality Control & Reliability Tests....Pages 291-348
Quality and Reliability Assurance During the Production Phase (Basic Considerations)....Pages 349-364
Annexes....Pages 365-573
Back Matter....Pages 574-610

✦ Subjects

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Organization/Planning; R & D/Technology Policy; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation