Reliability and Safety Engineering

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Synopsis

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.
They describe 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.

Book details

Edition:
2010
Series:
Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
Author:
Ajit Kumar Verma, Srividya Ajit, Durga Rao Karanki
ISBN:
9781849962322
Related ISBNs:
9781849962315
Publisher:
Springer London
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-08-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2010
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Technology