Reliability, maintainability, and risk : practical methods for engineers 6th
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : David John Smith
- ناشر : Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2001
- شابک / ISBN : 9780750651684
Description
Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs -- The history of reliability and safety technology -- Failure data -- Hazardous failures -- Reliability and risk prediction -- Achieving reliability and safety-integrity -- The RAMS-cycle -- Contractual pressures -- Understanding terms and jargon -- Defining failure and failure modes -- Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures -- Interrelationships of terms -- The Bathtub Distribution -- Down Time and Repair Time -- Availability -- Hazard and risk-related terms -- Choosing the appropriate parameter -- A cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety -- The cost of quality -- Reliability and cost -- Costs and safety -- Interpreting Failure Rates -- Realistic failure rates and prediction confidence -- Data accuracy -- Sources of data -- Data ranges -- Confidence limits of prediction -- Overall conclusions -- Interpreting data and demonstrating reliability -- The four cases -- Inference and confidence levels -- The Chi-square Test -- Double-sided confidence limits -- Summarizing the Chi-square Test -- Reliability demonstration -- Sequential testing -- Setting up demonstration tests -- Variable failure rates and probability plotting -- The Weibull Distribution -- Using the Weibull Method -- More complex cases of the Weibull Distribution -- Continuous processes -- Predicting Reliability and Risk -- Essential reliability theory -- Why predict RAMS? -- Probability theory -- Reliability of series systems -- Redundancy rules -- General features of redundancy.
