Preface
Course Software
1 Introduction
1.1 The Study of Reliability and Maintainability
1.2 Concepts.Terms,and Definitions
1.3 Applications
1.4 A BriefHistory
1.5 Scope of the Tex
tAppendix lA A Probability Primer
PARTl Basic Reliability Models
2 The Failure Distribution
2.1 The Reliability Function
2.2 Mean Time to Failure
2.3 Hazard Rate Function
2.4 Bathtub Curve
2.5 Conditional Reliability
2.6 Summary
3 Constant Failure Rate Model
3.1 The Exponential Reliability Function
3.2 Failure Modes
3.3 Applications
3.4 The Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution
3.5 Poisson Process
3.6 Redundancy and the CFR Model Exercises
4 Time-Dependent Failure Models
4.1 The Weibull Distribution
4.2 The Normal Distribution
4.3 The Lognormal Distribution
5 Reliability of Systems
5.1 Serial Configuration
5.2 Parallel Configuration
5.3 Combined Series-Parallel Systems
5.4 System Structure Function, Minimal Cuts,
5.5 Common-Mode Failures
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PART 2 The Analysis of Failure Data
PART 3 Application
References
Appendix
Index