Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Terms of Reliability 1.1.1 Reliability 1.1.2 Availability 1.1.3 Maintainability 1.1.4 Safety 1.2 Reliability Indices 1.2.1 Probability density function (pdf) 1.2.2 Cumulative distribution function (CDF) 1.2.3 Reliability function 1.2.4 Failure rate 1.2.5 Mean time between failures (MTBF) 1.2.6 Mean time to failure (MTTF) 1.2.7 Basic calculations 1.2.8 Case study 1.3 Reliability Engineering 1.3.1 Introduction 1.3.2 Product lifecycle 1.3.3 Integration of reliability engineering into the product lifecycle 1.4 Lifetime Distributions 1.4.1 Exponential distribution 1.4.2 Weibull distribution 1.4.3 Normal distribution 1.4.4 Lognormal distribution Exercises Chapter 2 Reliability Models 2.1 Mission Analysis and Structure-Function Decomposition 2.2 Reliability Block Diagram 2.3 Traditional Reliability Models 2.3.1 Series configuration 2.3.2 Parallel configuration 2.3.3 Mixed configurations 2.3.4 k-out-of-n: G systems 2.3.5 Cold standby system 2.3.6 Complex system 2.4 Performance Reliability 2.4.1 Advantages of degradation data 2.4.2 Degradation models Exercises Chapter 3 Reliability Analysis 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 3.2.1 FMEA types and benefits 3.2.2 FMEA process 3.2.3 System definition 3.2.4 Potential failure mode 3.2.5 Potential effects of failure and severity 3.2.6 Potential failure mechanisms and occurrence 3.2.7 Design controls and detection 3.2.8 RPN and recommended actions
3.2.9 Design FMEA example 3.3 Advanced Topics in FMEA 3.3.1 RPN property 3.3.2 Software FMEA 3.4 Fault Tree Analysis 3.4.1 FTA benefits and process 3.4.2 Event and logic symbols 3.4.3 Qualitative analysis by cut sets 3.4.4 Quantitative analysis by reliability block diagrams 3.4.5 Determination of minimal cut sets by boolean algebra 3.4.6 Quantitative analysis of a fault tree 3.5 Advanced Topics in FTA 3.5.1 FTA by binary decision diagram 3.5.2 Dynamic FTA Exercises Chapter 4 Design for Reliability 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Reliability Allocation 4.2.1 Criteria for reliability allocation 4.2.2 Equal allocation technique 4.2.3 ARINC approach 4.2.4 AGREE allocation method 4.2.5 Minimum efforts method 4.3 Reliability Prediction 4.3.1 General 4.3.2 Application 4.3.3 Assumptions and limitations 4.3.4 Prediction models 4.3.5 The failure rate prediction process 4.3.6 Monte Carlo method 4.4 Reliability Design Methods 4.4.1 Parts and material selection 4.4.2 Derating 4.4.3 Stress-strength analysis 4.4.4 Complexity and technology 4.4.5 Redundancy Exercises Chapter 5 Reliability Testing 5.1 Reliability Testing Classification 5.2 Environmental Stress Screening 5.3 Reliability Growth Testing 5.3.1 Reliability growth 5.3.2 Reliability growth models (RGM) 5.3.3 Validation of reliability growth effectiveness 5.3.4 Validation of model goodness-of-fit 5.4 Reliability Life Testing 5.4.1 Principles of testing design 5.4.2 Normal stress life testing (NSLT) 5.4.3 Accelerated life testing (ALT) 5.5 Reliability Verification Testing
5.5.1 Planning for reliability verification testing 5.5.2 Bogey testing 5.5.3 Time-censored testing 5.5.4 Failure-censored testing 5.5.5 Sequential testing Exercises Chapter 6 Reliability Evaluation 6.1 Data Acquisition 6.1.1 Purposes of reliability data collecting 6.1.2 Types of data 6.1.3 Data structure 6.1.4 Censoring mechanisms 6.1.5 Requirements for data collection 6.1.6 Contents for collection 6.1.7 Methods for collection 6.1.8 Testing data collection 6.2 Reliability Graphic Analysis 6.2.1 Failure data pareto diagram 6.2.2 Failure data cause & effect diagram 6.2.3 Failure data histogram 6.3 Reliability Evaluation for Units 6.3.1 Traditional reliability evaluation method 6.3.2 Methods under small sample size 6.4 Reliability Evaluation for System 6.4.1 Methods for system reliability evaluation 6.4.2 MML method Exercises Chapter 7 Reliability Management 7.1 Corporate Policy for Reliability 7.2 Reliability Program Development 7.2.1 Generic reliability program 7.2.2 Product-specific reliability program 7.2.3 Reliability program management 7.3 Selecting and Training for Reliability 7.4 Organization for Reliability 7.4.1 Quality assurance based organization 7.4.2 Engineering based organization 7.4.3 Comparison of types of organization 7.5 Choosing the Methods: Strategy and Tactics 7.6 FRACAS Exercises References Abbreviations
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