Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering
Dr. Andre V. Kleyner
Series Editor
The Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering aims to provide a solid educational foundation for both practitioners and researchers in the Q&R field and to expand the reader’s knowledge base to include the latest
developments in this field. The series will provide a lasting and positive contribution to the teaching and practice of engineering.
The series coverage will contain, but is not exclusive to,
Statistical methods
Physics of failure
Reliability modeling
Functional safety
Six-sigma methods
Lead-free electronics
Warranty analysis/management
Risk and safety analysis
Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering
Reliability Analysis, Safety Assessment and Optimization: Methods and Applications in Energy Systems and Other Applications by Enrico Zio, Yan-Fu Li May 2022
Design for Excellence in Electronics Manufacturing Cheryl Tulkoff, Greg Caswell April 2021
Design for Maintainability by Louis J. Gullo (Editor), Jack Dixon (Editor) March 2021
Reliability Culture: How Leaders can Create Organizations that Create Reliable Products by Adam P. Bahret February 2021
Lead-free Soldering Process Development and Reliability by Jasbir Bath (Editor) August 2020
Automotive System Safety: Critical Considerations for Engineering and Effective Management Joseph D. Miller February 2020
Prognostics and Health Management: A Practical Approach to Improving System Reliability Using Condition-Based Data by Douglas Goodman, James P. Hofmeister, Ferenc Szidarovszky April 2019
Improving Product Reliability and Software Quality: Strategies, Tools, Process and Implementation, 2nd Edition Mark A. Levin, Ted T. Kalal, Jonathan Rodin April 2019
Practical Applications of Bayesian Reliability Yan Liu, Athula I. Abeyratne April 2019
Dynamic System Reliability: Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic and Dependent Behaviors Liudong Xing, Gregory Levitin, Chaonan Wang March 2019
Reliability Engineering and Services Tongdan Jin March 2019
Design for Safety by Louis J. Gullo, Jack Dixon February 2018
Thermodynamic Degradation Science: Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue and Reliability by Alec Feinberg October 2016
Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems by Kirk A. Gray, John J. Paschkewitz May 2016
Reliability and Risk Models: Setting Reliability Requirements, 2nd Edition by Michael Todinov November 2015
Reliability Analysis, Safety Assessment and Optimization
Methods and Applications in Energy Systems and Other Applications
Enrico Zio
MINES ParisTech/PSL Université, Italy
Yan-Fu Li
Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
This edition first published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Zio, Enrico, author. | Li, Yan-Fu, author.
Title: Reliability analysis, safety assessment and optimization: methods and applications in energy systems and other applications / Enrico Zio, Yan-Fu Li.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Series: Wiley series in quality & reliability engineering | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022009590 (print) | LCCN 2022009591 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119265870 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119265924 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119265863 (epub) | ISBN 9781119265856 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Reliability (Engineering) | Industrial safety.
Classification: LCC TA169 .Z57 2022 (print) | LCC TA169 (ebook) | DDC 620/.00452--dc23/eng/20220316
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022009590 LC ebook record available at