Reliability, maintainability and risk : practical methods for engineers
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Oxford ; Boston :
Butterworth Heinemann,
1999, ©1997.
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| Edition | 5th ed., reprinted with revisions. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 159124322X 9781591243229 0750637528 9780750637527 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs. 1. The History of reliability and safety technology. 2. Understanding terms and jargon. 3. A cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety
- pt. 2. Interpreting Failure Rates. 4. Realistic failure rates. 5. Interpreting data and demonstrating reliability. 6. Variable failure rates and probability plotting
- pt. 3. Predicting Reliability and Risk. 7. Essential reliability theory. 8. Methods of modelling. 9. Risk assessment (QRA)
- pt. 4. Achieving Reliability and Maintainability. 10. Design and assurance techniques. 11. Design review and test. 12. Field data collection and feedback. 13. Factors influencing down time. 14. Predicting and demonstrating repair times. 15. Quantified reliability centred maintenance. 16. Software quality/reliability
- pt. 5. Legal, Management and Safety Considerations. 17. Project management. 18. Contract clauses and their pitfalls. 19. Product liability and safety legislation. 20. Major incident legislation. 21. Safety-related systems. 22. A case study: The Datamet Project. App. 2. Percentage points of the Chi-square distribution
- App. 3. Microelectronics failure rates
- App. 4. General failure rates
- App. 5. Failure mode percentages
- App. 6. Human error rates
- App. 7. Fatality rates
- App. 8. Answers to exercises
- App. 9. Bibliography
- App. 10. Software packages
- App. 11. Simulation source code.