Reliability-based Design

This book aims to show engineers and managers how to apply reliability analysis and design principles to single- and multi-component systems. The book covers the basic ideas of time-dependent and strength-based reliability of components and systems, and methods of analyzing weakest link and fail-safe systems. Included are discussions of the roles of failure modes, event tree, fault tree and Monte Carlo simulation techniques in the design of complex engineering systems. Also examined are aspects of optimization, maintainability, availability, testing and quality control that will enable professionals to achieve a high degree of reliability in pracical systems.