Reliability, Life Testing and the Prediction of Service Lives For Engineers and Scientists /

• Main Author: Saunders, Sam C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Springer Series in Statistics,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer software > Reusability.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Engineering.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Computer Science.; Performance and Reliability.; Engineering, general.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.

This book is intended for students and practitioners who have had a calculus-based statistics course and who have an interest in safety considerations such as reliability, strength, and duration-of-load or service life. Many persons studying statistical science will be employed professionally where...

Table of Contents:

• Requisites
• Elements of Reliability
• Partitions and Selection
• Coherent Systems
• Applicable Life Distributions
• Philosophy, Science, and Sense
• Nonparametric Life Estimators
• Weibull Analysis
• Examine Data, Diagnose and Consult
• Cumulative Damage Distributions
• Analysis of Dispersion
• Damage Processes
• Service Life of Structures
• Strength and Durability
• Maintenance of Systems
• Mathematical Appendix.