Authors:R.N. Allan, Billinton,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: systems, power, evaluation, reliability
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 1996-08-31
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0306452596
ISBN-13: 9780306452598

The Second Edition of this well-received textbook presents over a decade of new research in power system reliability--while maintaining the general concept, structure, and style of the original volume. This edition features new chapters on the growing areas of Monte Carlo simulation and reliability economics. In addition, chapters cover the latest developments in techniques and their application to real problems. The text also explores the progress occurring in the structure, planning, and operation of real power systems due to changing ownership, regulation, and access. This work serves as a

Author: Alessandro Birolini
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: practice, theory, engineering, reliability
Number of Pages: 593
Published: 2007-03-28
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540493883
ISBN-13: 9783540493884

This book shows how to build in, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability & availability of components, equipment, systems. It presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice, and is based on the author’s 30 years experience in this field, half in industry and half as Professor of Reliability Engineering at the ETH, Zurich. The structure of the book allows rapid access to practical results. Besides extensions to cost models and approximate expressions, new in this edition are investigations on common cause failures, phased-mission systems, availability

Author: Charles E. Ebeling
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Keywords: engineering, maintainability, reliability, introduction
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2009-12-08
List price: $91.95
ISBN-10: 1577666259
ISBN-13: 9781577666257

Many textbooks on reliability focus on either modeling or statistical analysis and require an extensive background in probability and statistics on the part of the reader. Continuing its tradition as an introductory text for readers with limited formal education in the subject, this classroom-tested text introduces the necessary concepts in probability and statistics within the context of their application to reliability. The second edition s increased breadth of coverage includes new reliability models and updated information on failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) to reflect its more rece

Author: Linda C. Wolstenholme
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: approach, statistical, modelling, reliability
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-06-25
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1584880147
ISBN-13: 9781584880141

Reliability is an essential concept in mathematics, computing, research, and all disciplines of engineering, and reliability as a characteristic is, in fact, a probability. Therefore, in this book, the author uses the statistical approach to reliability modelling along with the MINITAB software package to provide a comprehensive treatment of modelling, from the basics through advanced modelling techniques.The book begins by presenting a thorough grounding in the elements of modelling the lifetime of a single, non-repairable unit. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, the author includes

Authors:N. Limnios, G. Oprisan,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: reliability, processes, markov, semi
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2001-02-16
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0817641963
ISBN-13: 9780817641962

The theory of stochastic processes, for science and engineering, can be considered as an extension of probability theory allowing modeling of the evolution of systems over time. The modern theory of Markov processes has its origins in the studies of A.A. Markov (1856-1922) on sequences of experiments "connected in a chain" and in the attempts to describe mathematically the physical phenomenon Brownian motion. The theory of stochastic processes entered in a period of intensive development when the idea of Markov property was brought in. This book is a modern overall view of semi-Markov p

Author: Guangbin Yang
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: engineering, reliability, cycle, life
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2007-02-02
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0471715298
ISBN-13: 9780471715290

As the Lead Reliability Engineer for Ford Motor Company, Guangbin Yang is involved with all aspects of the design and production of complex automotive systems. Focusing on real-world problems and solutions, Life Cycle Reliability Engineering covers the gamut of the techniques used for reliability assurance throughout a product’s life cycle. Yang pulls real-world examples from his work and other industries to explain the methods of robust design (designing reliability into a product or system ahead of time), statistical and real product testing, software testing, and ultimately verificati

Author: John Moubray
Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.
Keywords: second, maintenance, centered, reliability
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $62.50
ISBN-10: 0831131462
ISBN-13: 9780831131463

Written by an expert in the field who has helped users apply RCM and its more modern derivative, RCM2, at more than 600 sites in 32 countries. The second edition includes more than 100 pages of new material on: condition monitoringthe analysis of functions and failures human error the management risk failure finding the measurement maintenance performance