Bücher der Reihe Springer Series in Reliability Engineering

In contrast to many academic textbooks dealing with technological risks, this book has a unique interdisciplinary character that presents technological risks in their own context.Twenty-four scientists have come together to present their views on risks in technological systems.

This text provides a foundation and a theoretical basis for managing risk to an acceptable level under the real-world constraint of limited resources. The principal focus is on the development of guidance for establishing rational standards of practice.

This book compiles and critically discusses modern engineering system degradation models and their impact on engineering decisions. The concepts and models presented have applications in a large variety of engineering fields such as Civil, Environmental, Industrial, Electrical and Mechanical engineering.

Warranty data is collected during the processing of claims under warranty. Properly analyzing this data, we can better estimate product reliability and the costs of warranty. This book unifies the range of literature on warranty data collection and analysis.

This one-volume, in-depth introduction to the computational methodologies available for rapid detection of flaws in structures covers techniques, algorithms and results in a way that facilitates their direct application, and includes a number of case studies.

This book illustrates the Monte Carlo simulation method and its application to reliability and system engineering. Conveys a sound understanding of of the fundamentals of Monte Carlo sampling and simulation and its application for realistic system modeling.

Companies are being forced to process and manage increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced customer delivery times. This book introduces an original and integrated idea of maintenance: maintenance for productivity.

This book presents a risk management framework designed to achieve better decisions and more desirable outcomes. It presents an in-depth discussion of some fundamental principles of risk management related to the use of expected values, uncertainty handling, and risk acceptance criteria.

This book is a methodological approach to the goal-based safety design procedure that will soon be an international requirement. This is the first single volume book to describe how to satisfy safety goals by modern reliability engineering. Its focus is on the quantitative aspects of the international standards using a methodological approach.

Focusing on shocks modelling, burn-in and heterogeneous populations, this book naturally combines these three topics in the unified stochastic framework and presents numerous practical examples that illustrate recent theoretical findings of the authors.

It gives an exhaustive list of minimal repair models for the effective planning of minimal repair and maintenance actions.Written in an engaging style, Replacement Models with Minimal Repair balances complex mathematical models with practical applications.

This book presents a state-of-the-art treatment of complex multi-channel system reliability assessment. It provides the requisite tools, techniques and algorithms required for designing, evaluating and optimizing ultra-reliable redundant systems.

Gives a comprehensive description of the universal generating function technique and its applications in binary and multi-state system reliability analysis. This monograph is of interest to those interested in system reliability, performance analysis and optimization in industrial, electrical and nuclear engineering.

This book combines information on safety in mining with methods that can be used to preserve human life. It covers a range of topics, including: human factors and error, equipment safety, offshore industry and programmable electronic mining system safety.

Chapter 2 summarizes the results of repair maintenance, which is the most basic maintenance in reliability. The repair maintenance of systems such as the one-unit system and multiple-unit redundant systems is treated.

This valuable resource deals with the problem of quantifying the complexity of a proceduralized task; in other words, a task written as a procedure. It proposes a systematic framework that is able to quantify the complexity of proceduralized tasks.

The mining industry makes use of various types of complex and sophisticated equipment, for which reliability, maintainability and safety has become an important issue. This book covers these three important topics.

This book presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modelling.

This book will interest maintenance engineers and managers in industry as well as researchers and graduate students in maintenance, industrial engineering and applied mathematics.

The book comprehensively covers the various aspects of risk modeling and analysis in technological contexts. It pursues a systems approach to modeling risk and reliability concerns in engineering, and covers the key concepts of risk analysis and mathematical tools used to assess and account for risk in engineering problems.

This is the first monograph which presents shock and damage models in reliability from introduction to application. The practical applications of shock and damage models are demonstrated using case studies. Reliability engineers and managers of maintenance work will find this book a broad reference.

Human errors contribute significantly to most transportation crashes: approximately 70 to 90 percent of crashes are the result of human error. This book examines human reliability across all types of transportation systems.

"The Maintenance Management Framework" describes and reviews the concept, process and framework of modern maintenance management of complex systems; It will be bought by engineers and professionals involved in maintenance management, maintenance engineering, operations management, quality, etc.

Each industry, from robotics to health care, power generation to software, has its own tailored reliability and quality principles, methods, and procedures.

This book is an introduction to software reliability engineering and a survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems.

Presents the theories and methods of reliability and maintenance, emphasising multi-component systems. Aimed at postgraduates, researchers and practitioners, this title covers: imperfect repair, economic dependence and opportunistic maintenance, failure and repair, software reliability and maintenance cost, and warranty cost considerations.

This book discusses the value of the worst-scenario approach for improving earthquake resilience in buildings and nuclear reactor facilities. The approach is applied to modeling of inelastic structures, and passive-controlled and base-isolated buildings.

This book examines the range of information technology aspects in nuclear power plants (NPPs). It details the statistical methods and economic and safety studies that are currently used to evaluate their shortcomings.

With technology advancing so rapidly, quality control in engineering is always a top priority. Eschewing the mathematics involved in favor of a practical approach, this text provides valuable insights into topics ranging from policy implementation to auditing.