Reliability Engineering - (Wiley Systems Engineering and Management) 3rd Edition by Elsayed A Elsayed (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This book divides the engineering reliability process into multiple parts. Part I focuses on system reliability estimation for time independent and time dependent models, helping engineers create a "firm" design. Part II presents the concept of constructing the likelihood function and its use in estimating the parameters of a failure time distribution. This aids the reader in assembling necessary components and configures them to achieve desired reliability objectives, conducting reliability tests on components and using field data from similar components. Part III addresses Physics of Failures, Mechanical Reliability and System Resilience. Finally, Part IV of the book focuses on ensuring reliability objectives by providing preventive and scheduled maintenance and warranty policies."--

Book Synopsis

Get a firm handle on the engineering reliability process with this insightful and complete resource

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The newly and thoroughly revised 3rd Edition of Reliability Engineering delivers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of this crucial field. Accomplished author, professor, and engineer, Elsayed. A. Elsayed includes new examples and end-of-chapter problems to illustrate concepts, new chapters on resilience and the physics of failure, revised chapters on reliability and hazard functions, and more case studies illustrating the approaches and methodologies described within.

The book combines analyses of system reliability estimation for time independent and time dependent models with the construction of the likelihood function and its use in estimating the parameters of failure time distribution. It concludes by addressing the physics of failures, mechanical reliability, and system resilience, along with an explanation of how to ensure reliability objectives by providing preventive and scheduled maintenance and warranty policies.

This new edition of Reliability Engineering covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Reliability and hazard functions, like the Weibull Model, the Exponential Model, the Gamma Model, and the Log-Logistic Model, among others
• System reliability evaluations, including parallel-series, series-parallel, and mixed parallel systems
• The concepts of time- and failure-dependent reliability within both repairable and non-repairable systems
• Parametric reliability models, including types of censoring, and the Exponential, Weibull, Lognormal, Gamma, Extreme Value, Half-Logistic, and Rayleigh Distributions

Perfect for first-year graduate students in industrial and systems engineering, Reliability Engineering, 3rd Edition also belongs on the bookshelves of practicing professionals in research laboratories and defense industries. The book offers a practical and approachable treatment of a complex area, combining the most crucial foundational knowledge with necessary and advanced topics.

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Get a firm handle on the engineering reliability process with this insightful and complete resource

The newly and thoroughly revised 3rd Edition of Reliability Engineering delivers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of this crucial field. Accomplished author, professor, and engineer, Elsayed. A. Elsayed includes new examples and end-of-chapter problems to illustrate concepts, new chapters on resilience and the physics of failure, revised chapters on reliability and hazard functions, and more case studies illustrating the approaches and methodologies described within.

The book combines analyses of system reliability estimation for time independent and time dependent models with the construction of the likelihood function and its use in estimating the parameters of failure time distribution. It concludes by addressing the physics of failures, mechanical reliability, and system resilience, along with an explanation of how to ensure reliability objectives by providing preventive and scheduled maintenance and warranty policies.

This new edition of Reliability Engineering covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Reliability and hazard functions, like the Weibull Model, the Exponential Model, the Gamma Model, and the Log-Logistic Model, among others
• System reliability evaluations, including parallel-series, series-parallel, and mixed parallel systems
• The concepts of time- and failure-dependent reliability within both repairable and non-repairable systems
• Parametric reliability models, including types of censoring, and the Exponential, Weibull, Lognormal, Gamma, Extreme Value, Half-Logistic, and Rayleigh Distributions

Perfect for first-year graduate students in industrial and systems engineering, Reliability Engineering, 3rd Edition also belongs on the bookshelves of practicing professionals in research laboratories and defense industries. The book offers a practical and approachable treatment of a complex area, combining the most crucial foundational knowledge with necessary and advanced topics.

About the Author

ELSAYED. A. ELSAYED, PHD is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Rutgers University. He is Director of the NSF/Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Quality and Reliability Engineering, Rutgers-Arizona State University. His research interests include the areas of quality and reliability engineering, production planning, and control and manufacturing processes and engineering.