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Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
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by: David J. Smith
Topics include: failed redundant units, dormant failures, spares levels, external test equipment, random hardware failures, system failure mode, failure rate data, coincident failures, active redundancy, reliability centred maintenance, spares provisioning, repair elements, diagnostic coverage, preventive replacement, wearout failures, field failure rate, system failure rate, system unavailability, maintenance philosophy, diverse equipment, absorber tower, human error rates, constant failure rate, reliability growth, reliability block diagrams
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Reliability, Maintainability and Risk deals with all aspects of reliability, maintainability and safety-related failures in a simple and straightforward style, explaining technical terms and jargon and pre-supposing no prior knowledge of the subject. The author explains dealing with numerical data, making realistic predictions using the minimum of mathematics, and handling the limitations of reliability parameters.
A well-established book has been considerably expanded in this fully revised fifth edition to take account of. * RCM and the optimization of maintenance strategies. * Trends in the integrity of safety-related systems. * Risk assessment. * Updated information on software tools for reliability and risk assessment.
Contents:
Terms and Jargon
Data Analysis
Variable Failure Rates
Essential Probability Theory
Field Data
Prediction and Modeling
Maintainability Prediction and Design
Design Review
Software Reliability
Risk Assessment
Reliability Centered Maintenance
Contract Liability and Legal Aspects
Major Incident Legislation
Project Management
Safety-related Systems
Reviews:
An ideal guide to the field of reliability for engineers.
This is the 5th edition of DJ Smith's excellent book on reliability in the real world. Having worked in this field for a number of years, I can honestly say that Mr. Smith has provided a perfect means of understanding the principles behind basic reliability calculations, in a way that is neither condescending nor unneccesarily complex. I recommend this book in the strongest possible terms to readers interested in gaining a greater understanding of the world of reliability engineering without having to trawl through pages of postgraduate mathematics.