This practical guide to reliability engineering reviews the fundamentals of the practice, describes current laboratory tests and explores such practical concepts as FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis).
With a focus on reliability analysis, this text provides a practical and comprehensive overview of reliability and risk analysis techniques. It features topics including generalized renewal with applications, Bayesian estimation methods, and estimation of bounds of repairable unit reliability and availability.
Deals with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. This book includes chapters which are devoted to analytical approaches to escalation, escape, evacuation and rescue analysis of safety and emergency systems.
Smart technologies comprise a dynamic new interdisciplinary research field that encompasses a wide spectrum of engineering applications including, but not limited to, intelligent structures and materials, actuators, sensors and structural observability, control systems and software tools for the design of adaptive structures.
Presents a comprehensive overview of advances in the analysis and design of health management systems for cooperating unmanned aerial vehicles. This monograph presents fundamental principles and results encompassing optimization, systems theory, information theory, dynamics, modeling and simulation.
This book offers accurate, efficient methods for solving stochastic equations, with a focus on formulating equations that apply to problems in engineering and applied sciences. Numerous examples illustrate essential theoretical concepts, models and methods.
In today's sophisticated world, reliability stands as the ultimate arbiter of quality. This title focuses on those probability distributions that more accurately describe the true behavior of failure. It also demonstrates and then considers the advantages and disadvantages for the stress-strength analysis approach.
Provides a basic illustration of some methods used in reliability and risk analysis for modelling the stochastic failure and repair behaviour of systems. This work offers an introduction to key issues of system reliability and risk analysis, like dependent failures and importance measures.
Reliability engineering is an engineering field, that deals with the study of reliability: the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time. This book presents the research in the field.
Presents various reliability software packages. This title includes PowerPoint slides and solutions for course tutors held on a companion website. It is suitable for experienced design and reliability engineers, as well as engineers studying for CRE, ASQ or IQA certification.
This text is devoted to the application of probabilistic methods used in reliability engineering. It covers all mathematical models associated with reliability analysis. Many new results of probabilistic testing are published here, and case studies illustrate the theories presented.
This text gives a practical explanation of what reliability-centred maintenance is and how it is efectively applied. The plant-based approach of the book makes it well-suited for use in industrial training schemes and centres of higher technical education.
Intended for professional engineers and students, this seventh edition incorporates material on important topics including software failure, the safety legislation and standards, product liability, integrity of safety-related systems, as well as delivering a review of the approaches to reliability modelling, including cutsec ranking.
Analyzes the social side of technological risk. This book argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.
Process industries are home to a huge number of machines. Failures of these machines can result in various consequences. This book aims to help anyone involved with machinery reliability, be it in the design of new plants or the maintenance of existing ones, to understand why process machine fails, and undertake preventive measures to avoid it.
Provides information on anticipating risk of component failure and avoiding equipment downtime. This book includes numerous photographs of failed parts to ensure you are familiar with the visual evidence you need to recognize. It covers proven approaches to failure definition and offers failure identification and analysis methods.
Presents various reliability software packages. This title includes PowerPoint slides and solutions for course tutors held on a companion website. It is suiatble for experienced design and reliability engineers, as well as engineers studying for CRE, ASQ or IQA certification.
This examination of developments in modern reliability theory, such as signatures, multi-state systems and statistical inference, describes the latest achievements in these fields, and details how they can be applied to reliability engineering practice.