Design Reliability : Fundamentals and Applications

As engineering systems become more and more complex, industry has recognized the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Despite its efforts, however, industry continues to lose billions of dollars each year because of unexpected system failures. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important for designers and engineers to have a solid grounding in reliability engineering and keep abreast of new developments and research results.

• Requires no previous knowledge of design reliability and focuses on concepts and applications rather than mathematical rigor
• Includes new findings relevant to a variety of applications
• Offers numerous problems and exercises to challenge the reader's understanding
• Provides lists of common terms and definitions used in reliability engineering

Preface
The Author

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Design Reliability Mathematics
Chapter 3 : Engineering Design and Reliability Management
Chapter 4 : Failure Data Collection and Analysis
Chapter 5 : Basic Reliability Evaluation and Allocation Techniques
Chapter 6 : Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
Chapter 7 : Fault Tree Analysis
Chapter 8 : Common Cause Failures and Three State Devices
Chapter 9 : Mechanical Reliability
Chapter 10 : Human Reliability in Engineering Systems
Chapter 11 : Reliability Testing and Growth
Chapter 12 : Reliability in Computer Systems
Chapter 13 : Robot Reliability and Safety
Chapter 14 : Medical Device Reliability
Chapter 15 : Design Maintainability and Reliability Centered Maintenance
Chapter 16 : Total Quality Management and Risk Assessment
Chapter 17 : Life Cycle Costing

Index