Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
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Reliability, Maintainability and Risk

Practical Methods for Engineers

  1. 334 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk

Practical Methods for Engineers

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

  1. Front Cover
  2. Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction to the Fourth Edition
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Part One: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs
  8. Part Two: Interpreting Failure Rates
  9. Part Three: Predicting Reliability and Risk
  10. Part Four: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability
  11. Part Five: Legal and Management Considerations
  12. Appendix 1: Glossary
  13. Appendix 2: Percentage points of the Chi-square Distribution
  14. Appendix 3: Microelectronics failure rates
  15. Appendix 4: General failure rates
  16. Appendix 5: Failure mode percentages
  17. Appendix 6: Human error rates
  18. Appendix 7: Fatality rates
  19. Appendix 8: Answers to exercises
  20. Appendix 9: Bibliography
  21. Appendix 10: Software packages
  22. Appendix 11: Simulation source code
  23. Index