Reliability, maintainability, and risk : practical methods for engineers / David J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, David J. (David John), 1943 June 22-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reliability (Engineering).

Maintainability (Engineering).

Engineering design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

6th ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been updated to ensure that it remains the leading reliability textbook and cementing the book's reputation for staying one step ahead of the competition.This 6th edition incorporates brand new material on the accuracy of reliability prediction and common cause failure based on the author's PhD research work. David J. Smith approaches these subjects from an entirely original and unique viewpoint, emphasising that the need to demonstrate that safety-related systems have been assessed against target integrity levels is now commonplace in most in

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs; Chapter 1. The history of reliability and safety technology; 1.1 Failure data; 1.2 Hazardous failures; 1.3 Reliability and risk prediction; 1.4 Achieving reliability and safety-integrity; 1.5 The RAMS-cycle; 1.6 Contractual pressures; Chapter 2. Understanding terms and jargon; 2.1 Defining failure and failure modes; 2.2 Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures; 2.3 Interrelationships of terms; 2.4 The Bathtub Distribution; 2.5 Down Time and Repair Time; 2.6 Availability

2.7 Hazard and risk-related terms2.8 Choosing the appropriate parameter; Chapter 3. A cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety; 3.1 The cost of quality; 3.2 Reliability and cost; 3.3 Costs and safety; Part Two: Interpreting Failure Rates; Chapter 4. Realistic failure rates and prediction confidence; 4.1 Data accuracy; 4.2 Sources of data; 4.3 Data ranges; 4.4 Confidence limits of prediction; 4.5 Overall conclusions; Chapter 5. Interpreting data and demonstrating reliability; 5.1 The four cases; 5.2 Inference and confidence levels; 5.3 The Chi-square Test

5.4 Double-sided confidence limits5.5 Summarizing the Chi-square Test; 5.6 Reliability demonstration; 5.7 Sequential testing; 5.8 Setting up demonstration tests; Exercises; Chapter 6. Variable failure rates and probability plotting; 6.1 The Weibull Distribution; 6.2 Using the Weibull Method; 6.3 More complex cases of the Weibull Distribution; 6.4 Continuous processes; Exercises; Part Three: Predicting Reliability and Risk; Chapter 7. Essential reliability theory; 7.1 Why predict RAMS?; 7.2 Probability theory; 7.3 Reliability of series systems; 7.4 Redundancy rules

7.5 General features of redundancyExercises; Chapter 8. Methods of modelling; 8.1 Block Diagram and Markov Analysis; 8.2 Common cause (dependent) failure; 8.3 Fault Tree Analysis; 8.4 Event Tree Diagrams; Chapter 9. Quantifying the reliability models; 9.1 The reliability prediction method; 9.2 Allowing for diagnostic intervals; 9.3 FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis); 9.4 Human factors; 9.5 Simulation; 9.6 Comparing predictions with targets; Exercises; Chapter 10. Risk assessment (QRA); 10.1 Frequency and consequence; 10.2 Perception of risk and ALARP; 10.3 Hazard identification

10.4 Factors to quantifyPart Four: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability; Chapter 11. Design and assurance techniques; 11.1 Specifying and allocating the requirement; 11.2 Stress analysis; 11.3 Environmental stress protection; 11.4 Failure mechanisms; 11.5 Complexity and parts; 11.6 Burn-in and screening; 11.7 Maintenance strategies; Chapter 12. Design review and test; 12.1 Review techniques; 12.2 Categories of testing; 12.3 Reliability growth modelling; Exercises; Chapter 13. Field data collection and feedback; 13.1 Reasons for data collection; 13.2 Information and difficulties

13.3 Times to failure

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-32542-2

9786611325428

0-08-051609-2

OCLC:

476160801