Reliability, maintainability and risk : practical methods for engineers /
David J. Smith
- Eighth edition.
- Saint Louis, Missouri : Elsevier Science, c2011
- xxi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Part 1 -- Understanding ReliabilityParameters and Costs -- CHAPTER 1 -- The History of Reliabilityand Safety Technology -- 1.1 -- Failure Data -- 1.2 -- Hazardous Failures -- 1.3 -- Reliability and Risk Prediction -- 1.4 -- Achieving Reliability and Safety-Integrity -- 1.5 -- The RAMS Cycle -- 1.6 -- Contractual and Legal Pressures -- Chapter 2 -- Understanding Terms and Jargon -- 2.1 -- Defining Failure and Failure Modes -- 2.2 -- Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures. 2.3 -- Interrelationships of Terms -- 2.4 -- The Bathtub Distribution -- 2.5 -- Down Time and Repair Time -- 2.6 -- Availability, Unavailability and Probability of Failure on Demand -- 2.7 -- Hazard and Risk-Related Terms -- 2.8 -- Choosing the Appropriate Parameter -- n -- Exercises -- chapter 3 -- A Cost-Effective Approach to Quality, Reliability and Safety -- 3.1 -- Reliability and Optimum Cost -- 3.2 -- Costs and Safety -- 3.3 -- The Cost of Quality -- Part 2 -- Interpreting Failure Rates -- CHAPTER 4 -- Realistic Failure Rates andPrediction Confidence -- 4.1 -- Data Accuracy -- 4.2 -- Sources of Data. 4.3 -- Data Ranges -- 4.4 -- Confidence Limits of Prediction -- 4.5 -- Manufacturers' Data -- 4.6 -- Overall Conclusions -- Chapter 5 -- Interpreting Data andDemonstrating Reliability -- 5.1 -- The Four Cases -- 5.2 -- Inference and Confidence Levels -- 5.3 -- The Chi-Square Test -- 5.4 -- Understanding the Method in More Detail -- 5.5 -- Double-Sided Confidence Limits -- 5.6 -- Reliability Demonstration -- 5.7 -- Sequential Testing -- 5.8 -- Setting Up Demonstration Tests -- n -- Exercises -- Chapter 6 -- Variable Failure Rates andProbability Plotting -- 6.1 -- The Weibull Distribution. 6.2 -- Using the Weibull Method -- 6.3 -- More Complex Cases of the Weibull Distribution -- 6.4 -- Continuous Processes -- Exercises -- Part 3 -- Predicting Reliability and Risk -- Chapter 7 -- Basic Reliability Prediction Theory -- 7.1 -- Why Predict RAMS? -- 7.2 -- Probability Theory -- 7.3 -- Reliability of Series Systems -- 7.4 -- Redundancy Rules -- 7.5 -- General Features of Redundancy -- Exercises -- Chapter 8 -- Methods of Modeling -- 8.1 -- Block Diagrams and Repairable Systems -- 8.2 -- Common Cause (Dependent) Failure -- 8.3 -- Fault Tree Analysis -- 8.4 -- Event Tree Diagrams. Chapter 9 -- Quantifying the Reliability Models -- 9.1 -- The Reliability Prediction Method -- 9.2 -- Allowing for Diagnostic Intervals -- 9.3 -- FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) -- 9.4 -- Human Factors -- 9.5 -- Simulation -- 9.6 -- Comparing Predictions with Targets -- chapter 10 -- Risk Assessment (QRA) -- 10.1 Frequency and Consequence -- 10.2 Perception of Risk, ALARP and Cost per Life Saved -- 10.3 Hazard Identification -- 10.4 Factors to Quantify -- Part 4 -- Achieving Reliabilityand Maintainability -- Chapter 11 -- Design and Assurance Techniques -- 11.3 Environmental Stress Protection.
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using reliability techniques to identify and eliminate potential failures early in the design cycle. The focus is on techniques known as RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety-integrity). The book is organized into five parts. Part 1 on reliability parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety technology and presents a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability, and safety. Part 2 deals with the interpretation of failure rates, while Part 3 focuses on the prediction of reliability and risk. Part 4 discusses design and assurance techniques; review and testing techniques; reliability growth modeling; field data collection and feedback; predicting and demonstrating repair times; quantified reliability maintenance; and systematic failures. Part 5 deals with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management, product liability, and safety legislation.