Handbook of Reliability Engineering

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pham, Hoang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2003.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Software engineering.; Mathematical optimization.; Statistics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Optimization.; Software Engineering.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

An effective reliability programme is an essential component of every product's design, testing and efficient production. From the failure analysis of a microelectronic device to software fault tolerance and from the accelerated life testing of mechanical components to hardware verification, a...

Table of Contents:

• System Reliability and Optimization
• Multi-state k-out-of-n Systems
• Reliability of Systems with Multiple Failure Modes
• Reliabilities of Consecutive-k Systems
• Multi-state System Reliability Analysis and Optimization (Universal Generating Function and Genetic Algorithm Approach)
• Combinatorial Reliability Optimization
• Statistical Reliability Theory
• Modeling the Observed Failure Rate
• Concepts of Stochastic Dependence in Reliability Analysis
• Statistical Reliability Change-point Estimation Models
• Concepts and Applications of Stochastic Aging in Reliability
• Class of NBU-t0 Life Distribution
• Software Reliability
• Software Reliability Models: A Selective Survey and New Directions
• Software Reliability Modeling
• Software Availability Theory and Its Applications
• Software Rejuvenation: Modeling and Applications
• Software Reliability Management: Techniques and Applications
• Recent Studies in Software Reliability Engineering
• Maintenance Theory and Testing
• Warranty and Maintenance
• Mechanical Reliability and Maintenance Models
• Preventive Maintenance Models: Replacement, Repair, Ordering, and Inspection
• Maintenance and Optimum Policy
• Optimal Imperfect Maintenance Models
• Accelerated Life Testing
• Accelerated Test Models with the Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution
• Multiple-steps Step-stress Accelerated Life Test
• Step-stress Accelerated Life Testing
• Practices and Emerging Applications
• Statistical Methods for Reliability Data Analysis
• The Application of Capture-Recapture Methods in Reliability Studies
• Reliability of Electric Power Systems: An Overview
• Human and Medical Device Reliability
• Probabilistic Risk Assessment
• Total Dependability Management
• Total Quality for Software Engineering Management
• Software Fault Tolerance
• Markovian Dependability/Performability Modeling of Fault-tolerant Systems
• Random-request Availability.