
- 334 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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 parameters and costs; the history of reliability and safety technology; cost-effective approaches to quality, reliability and safety; interpretation of failure rates; and prediction of reliability and risk. Risk assessment, design and assurance techniques, project management, and product liability are tackled as well. Industrial engineers, contract administrators, project managers, designers, and professionals responsible for the design and implementation of engineering projects will find the book invaluable.
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Table of contents
- 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
- Part Two: Interpreting Failure Rates
- Part Three: Predicting Reliability and Risk
- Part Four: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability
- Part Five: Legal and Management Considerations
- Appendix 1: Glossary
- Appendix 2: Percentage points of the Chi-square Distribution
- Appendix 3: Microelectronics failure rates
- Appendix 4: General failure rates
- Appendix 5: Failure mode percentages
- Appendix 6: Human error rates
- Appendix 7: Fatality rates
- Appendix 8: Answers to exercises
- Appendix 9: Bibliography
- Appendix 10: Software packages
- Appendix 11: Simulation source code
- Index