Reliability for Engineers An Introduction

This book will help students, practising engineers and engineering managers to understand the basic principles of reliability - what it means, how it is measured, how it is specified. Using a minimum of mathematics, key ideas are explained and illustrated in a practical way. Students and practitione...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beasley, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Macmillan Education UK 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Product Development
  • The Statistics of Failure I
  • The Statistics of Failure II
  • Component Reliability System.-Reliability Methods of Increasing System
  • Reliability Fault-tolerant Systems I
  • Fault-tolerant Systems II
  • The Behaviour of Maintained Systems
  • Elements of Markov Analysis
  • Spare Parts Provisioning
  • Software Reliability Maintainability
  • System Reliability Prediction
  • Reliable Systems: Specification, Design, Manufacture and Installation
  • Reliability Growth
  • Reliability Demonstration
  • Some Analytical Methods and Computer Software
  • The Final Product References
  • Bibliography
  • Answers to Exercises
  • Appendices
  • Index