An Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering

Abstract

1 IntroductionI Basic Reliability Models2 The Failure Distribution3 Constant Failure Rate Model4 Time-Dependent Failure Models5 Reliability of Systems6 State Dependent Systems7 Physical Reliability Models8 Design for Reliability9 Maintainability10 Design for Maintainability11 AvailabilityII The Analysis of Failure Data12 Data Collection and Empirical Methods13 Reliability Testing14 Reliability Growth Testing15 Identifying Failure and Repair Distributions16 Goodness-of-Fit TestsIII Application17 Reliability Estimation and Application18 Implementation