Table of Contents
1 Cover
2 Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
6 Preface Main Changes from the Second Edition Supplementary Information on the Internet Intended Audience Aims and Delimitation Authors Acknowledgments References
7 About the Companion Website Open Site Instructor Site GitHub Site Contact Person
8 1 Introduction 1.1 What is Reliability? 1.2 The Importance of Reliability 1.3 Basic Reliability Concepts 1.4 Reliability Metrics 1.5 Approaches to Reliability Analysis 1.6 Reliability Engineering 1.7 Objectives, Scope, and Delimitations of the Book 1.8 Trends and Challenges 1.9 Standards and Guidelines 1.10 History of System Reliability 1.11 Problems References
9 2 The Study Object and its Functions 2.1 Introduction 2.2 System and System Elements 2.3 Boundary Conditions 2.4 Operating Context 2.5 Functions and Performance Requirements 2.6 System Analysis 2.7 Simple, Complicated, and Complex Systems 2.8 System Structure Modeling 2.9 Problems References
10 Chapter 3: Failures and Faults 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Failures 3.3 Faults 3.4 Failure Modes 3.5 Failure Causes and Effects 3.6 Classification of Failures and Failure Modes 3.8 Problems References
11 Chapter 4: Qualitative System Reliability Analysis 4.1 Introduction 4.2 FMEA/FMECA 4.3 Fault Tree Analysis 4.4 Event Tree Analysis 4.5 Fault Trees versus Reliability Block Diagrams 4.6 Structure Function 4.7 System Structure Analysis 4.8 Bayesian Networks 4.9 Problems References
12 5 Probability Distributions in Reliability Analysis 5.1 Introduction 5.2 A Dataset 5.3 General Characteristics of Time‐to‐Failure Distributions 5.4 Some Time‐to‐Failure Distributions 5.5 Extreme Value Distributions 5.6 Time‐to‐Failure Models With Covariates 5.7 Additional Continuous Distributions 5.8 Discrete Distributions 5.9 Classes of Time‐to‐Failure Distributions 5.10 Summary of Time‐to‐Failure Distributions 5.11 Problems References
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