Reliability and Safety Engineering (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)

Reliability and safety are core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineering systems. Reliability and Safety Engineering presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations. The authors present reliability terminology in various engineering fields, viz., electronics engineering, software engineering, mechanical engineering, structural engineering and power systems engineering. The book describes the latest applications in the area of probabilistic safety assessment, such as technical specification optimization, risk monitoring and risk informed in-service inspection. Reliability and safety studies must, inevitably, deal with uncertainty, so the book includes uncertainty propagation methods: Monte Carlo simulation, fuzzy arithmetic, Dempster-Shafer theory and probability bounds. Reliability and Safety Engineering also highlights advances in system reliability and safety assessment including dynamic system modeling and uncertainty management. Case studies from typical nuclear power plants, as well as from structural, software, and electronic systems are also discussed. Reliability and Safety Engineering combines discussions of the existing literature on basic concepts and applications with state-of-the-art methods used in reliability and risk assessment of engineering systems. It is designed to assist practicing engineers, students and researchers in the areas of reliability engineering and risk analysis Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-17 Basic Reliability Mathematics....Pages 19-73 System Reliability Modeling....Pages 75-122 Reliability of Complex Systems....Pages 123-159 Electronic System Reliability....Pages 161-182 Software Reliability....Pages 183-217 Mechanical Reliability....Pages 219-255 Structural Reliability....Pages 257-292 Maintenance of Large Engineering Systems....Pages 293-332 Probabilistic Safety Assessment....Pages 333-372 Dynamic PSA....Pages 373-392 Applications of PSA....Pages 393-455 Uncertainty Analysis in Reliability/Safety Assessment....Pages 457-491 Advanced Methods in Uncertainty Management....Pages 493-554 Back Matter....Pages 555-571 "This book presents an overview of basic concepts in reliability and safety engineering, together with simple and practical illustrations. It also details the latest advances in the field, including dynamic risk assessment and uncertainty management" -- OhioLink Library Catalog