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Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Fourth edition presents the techniques in the analysis and assessment of reliability, maintainability, safety, and risk factors in engineering design. The book contains chapters that are devoted to the discussion of reliability...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, David J. (David John), 1943 June 22-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993.
Edición:4th ed.
Temas:
Reliability (Engineering)
Maintainability (Engineering)
Engineering design.
Fiabilit�e.
Maintenabilit�e.
Conception technique.
Engineering design
Reliability engineering
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction to the Fourth Edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part One: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs
  • Chapter 1. The history of reliability and safety technology
  • 1.1 Failure data
  • 1.2 Hazardous failures
  • 1.3 Reliability and risk prediction
  • 1.4 Achieving reliability
  • 1.5 Major activities
  • 1.6 Contractual pressures
  • Chapter 2. Understanding terms and jargon
  • 2.1 Defining Failure and failure modes
  • 2.2 Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures2.3 Interrelationships of terms
  • 2.4 The Bathtub Distribution
  • 2.5 Down Time and Repair Time
  • 2.6 Availability
  • 2.7 Hazard and risk-related terms
  • 2.8 Choosing the appropriate parameter
  • Chapter 3. A cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety
  • 3.1 The cost of quality
  • 3.2 Reliability and cost
  • 3.3 Costs and safety
  • Part Two: Interpreting Failure Rates
  • Chapter 4. Realistic failure rates
  • 4.1 Data accuracy
  • 4.2 Microelectronics data
  • 4.3 Overall data
  • 4.4 Sources of failure rate dataChapter 5. Interpreting data and demonstrating reliability
  • 5.1 The four cases
  • 5.2 Inference and confidence levels
  • 5.3 The Chi-square Test
  • 5.4 Double-sided confidence limits
  • 5.5 Summarizing the Chi-square Test
  • 5.6 Reliability demonstration
  • 5.7 Sequential testing
  • 5.8 Setting up demonstration tests
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 6. Variable failure rates and probability plotting
  • 6.1 The Weibull Distribution
  • 6.2 Using the Weibull Method
  • 6.3 More complex cases of the Weibull Distribution
  • 6.4 Continuous processesExercises
  • Part Three: Predicting Reliability and Risk
  • Chapter 7. Essential reliability theory
  • 7.1 Why predict?
  • 7.2 Probability theory
  • 7.3 Reliability of series systems
  • 7.4 Redundancy rules
  • 7.5 General features of redundancy
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 8. Methods of modelling
  • 8.1 Markov Analysis
  • Exercises
  • 8.2 Fault Tree Analysis
  • 8.3 Common mode effects
  • 8.4 Cause consequence diagrams
  • 8.5 Simulation
  • 8.6 Human factors
  • 8.7 FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis)
  • Chapter 9. Risk assessment9.1 Frequency and consequence
  • 9.2 Hazard identification
  • 9.3 Factors to quantify
  • Part Four: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability
  • Chapter 10. Design and assurance techniques
  • 10.1 Specifying and allocating the requirement
  • 10.2 Stress analysis
  • 10.3 Environmental stress protection
  • 10.4 Failure mechanisms
  • 10.5 Complexity and parts
  • 10.6 Burn-in and screening
  • 10.7 Maintenance strategies
  • Chapter 11. Design review and test
  • 11.1 Review techniques
  • 11.2 Categories of testing

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