Reliability and Optimal Maintenance

• Main Authors: Wang, Hongzhou (Author), Pham, Hoang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Statistics.; Complexity, Computational.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Complexity.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

For some systems, such as aircraft, submarines, military systems and aerospace systems, it is extremely important to avoid failure during actual operation because it is dangerous and disastrous. The study of various maintenance policies and models in order to improve system reliability, to prevent t...

Table of Contents:

• Imperfect Maintenance and Dependence
• Maintenance Policies and Analysis
• A Quasi-renewal Process and Its Applications
• Reliability and Optimal Maintenance of Series Systems with Imperfect Repair and Dependence
• Opportunistic Maintenance of Multi-unit Systems
• Optimal Preparedness Maintenance of Multi-unit Systems with Imperfect Maintenance and Economic Dependence
• Optimal Opportunistic Maintenance Policies of k-out-of-n Systems
• Reliability and Optimal Inspection-maintenance Models of Multi-degraded Systems
• Warranty Cost Models with Dependence and Imperfect Repair
• Software Reliability, Cost, and Optimization Models
• Monte Carlo Reliability Simulation of Complex Systems.