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Reliability and Risk Models: Setting Reliability Requirements, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-1-118-87332-8

September 2015

456 pages

Description
A comprehensively updated and reorganized new edition. The updates include comparative methods for improving reliability; methods for optimal allocation of limited resources to achieve a maximum risk reduction; methods for improving reliability at no extra cost and building reliability networks for engineering systems.

Includes:

  • A unique set of 46 generic principles for reducing technical risk
  • Monte Carlo simulation algorithms for improving reliability and reducing risk
  • Methods for setting reliability requirements based on the cost of failure
  • New reliability measures based on a minimal separation of random events on a time interval
  • Overstress reliability integral for determining the time to failure caused by overstress failure modes
  • A powerful equation for determining the probability of failure controlled by defects in loaded components with complex shape
  • Comparative methods for improving reliability which do not require reliability data
  • Optimal allocation of limited resources to achieve a maximum risk reduction
  • Improving system reliability based solely on a permutation of interchangeable components
About the Author
Michael Todinov Oxford Brookes University, UK