Spacecraft reliability and multi-state failures : a statistical approach / Joseph H. Saleh and Jean-Francois Castet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saleh, Joseph H., 1971-

Contributor:

Castet, Jean-François.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space vehicles--Reliability.

Space vehicles.

System failures (Engineering).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aerospace community has long recognized and repeatedly emphasizes the importance of reliability for space systems. Despite this, little has been published in book form on the topic. Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-state Failures addresses this gap in the literature, offering a unique focus on spacecraft reliability based on extensive statistical analysis of system and subsystem anomalies and failures. The authors provide new results pertaining to spacecraft reliability based on extensive statistical analysis of on-orbit anomaly and failure data that will be particularly useful to

Contents:

Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures : A Statistical Approach; Contents; 1 On time, reliability, and spacecraft; 1.1 On time and reliability; 1.1.1 Reliability: from the word to the engineering discipline; 1.1.2 Brief (pre)history of reliability engineering: the enablers and the catalyst; 1.2 On spacecraft and reliability: early studies; 1.2.1 Overview of early spacecraft reliability and on-orbit failure studies; 1.2.2 Beyond the failure rate emphasis in spacecraft reliability studies; 1.3 Book organization; 2 Nonparametric reliability analysis of spacecraft failure data

2.1 Introduction2.2 Database and data description; 2.3 Nonparametric analysis of spacecraft failure data; 2.3.1 Complete versus censored data set; 2.3.2 Empirical reliability function from a complete data set; 2.3.3 Kaplan-Meier estimator; 2.3.4 Kaplan-Meier plot of satellite reliability; 2.4 Confidence interval analysis; 2.5 Discussion and limitation; 2.A Appendix; 3 Parametric analysis and Weibull modeling of spacecraft reliability; 3.1 Weibull distribution: an overview; 3.2 Probability plots or graphical estimation; 3.2.1 Procedure

3.2.2 Weibull plot and Weibull fit of spacecraft reliability3.2.3 Advantages and limitations of the graphical estimation method; 3.3 Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE); 3.3.1 MLE derivation of a Weibull distribution; 3.3.2 MLE Weibull fit for spacecraft reliability; 3.4 Comparative analysis of the spacecraft reliability parametric fits; 3.4.1 MLE versus graphical estimation Weibull fits; 3.4.2 MLE Weibull versus MLE lognormal fits; 3.5 Finite mixture distributions; 3.5.1 Methods for estimating parameters of mixture distributions

3.5.2 The 2-Weibull mixture distribution of spacecraft reliability3.6 Comparative analysis of the single versus the mixture distribution Weibull fits; 4 Data specialization: statistical analysis of spacecraft reliability by orbit and mass categories; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Data description and mass categorization; 4.3 Nonparametric analysis of satellite reliability by mass category; 4.4 Parametric analysis of satellite reliability by mass category; 4.4.1 MLE of single Weibull fit; 4.4.2 Mixture distributions; 4.4.3 Failure rates; 4.5 Orbit characterization

4.6 Nonparametric analysis of spacecraft reliability by mass and orbit category4.7 Parametric analysis of satellite reliability by mass and orbit category; 4.8 Hypotheses for causal explanations; 4.8.1 Testing; 4.8.2 Procurement and parts selection; 4.8.3 Factors intrinsically related to the design of the spacecraft; 4.8.4 Factors related to the space environment; 4.A Appendix: Tabular data and confidence interval analysis; 4.A.1 Tabular data for the nonparametric reliability results in Figure 4.1 and Figure 4.8; 4.A.2 Confidence interval analysis; 5 Spacecraft subsystem reliability

5.1 Spacecraft subsystem identification

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-40555-5

9786613405555

1-119-97007-5

1-119-99406-3

1-119-99407-1

OCLC:

729724644