Book description
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years.
For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described, realistic, and illustrative examples and case studies add new insight and assistance. The author uses his 40 years of experience to create a comprehensive and detailed guide to the field, also providing an excellent description of reliability and risk computation concepts.
The book is organized into five parts. Part One covers reliability parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety technology, presenting a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability, and safety. Part Two deals with the interpretation of failure rates, while Part Three focuses on the prediction of reliability and risk.
Part Four discusses design and assurance techniques, review and testing techniques, reliability growth modeling, field data collection and feedback, predicting and demonstrating repair times, quantified reliability maintenance, and systematic failures, while Part 5 deals with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management, product liability, and safety legislation.
- Additional chapter on helicopter and aviation safety record
- Coverage of models for partial valve stroke test, fault tree logic and quantification difficulties
- More detail on use of tools such as FMEDA and programming standards like MISRA
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
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Part 1: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs
- Chapter 1: The History of Reliability and Safety Technology
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Chapter 2: Understanding Terms and Jargon
- Abstract
- 2.1. Defining Failure and Failure Modes
- 2.2. Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures
- 2.3. Interrelationships of Terms
- 2.4. The Bathtub Distribution
- 2.5. Down Time and Repair Time
- 2.6. Availability, Unavailability and Probability of Failure on Demand
- 2.7. Hazard and Risk-Related Terms
- 2.8. Choosing the Appropriate Parameter
- Chapter 3: A Cost-Effective Approach to Quality, Reliability and Safety
- Part 2: Interpreting Failure Rates
- Part 3: Predicting Reliability and Risk
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Part 4: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability
- Chapter 11: Design and Assurance Techniques
- Chapter 12: Design Review, Test and Reliability Growth
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Chapter 13: Field Data Collection and Feedback
- Abstract
- 13.1. Reasons for Data Collection
- 13.2. Information and Difficulties
- 13.3. Times to Failure
- 13.4. Spreadsheets and Databases
- 13.5. Best Practice and Recommendations
- 13.6. Analysis and Presentation of Results
- 13.7. Manufacturers’ data
- 13.8. Anecdotal Data
- 13.9. Examples of Failure Report Forms
- 13.10. No-Fault-Found (NFF)
- Chapter 14: Factors Influencing Down Time
- Chapter 15: Predicting and Demonstrating Repair Times
- Chapter 16: Quantified Reliability Centered Maintenance
- Chapter 17: Systematic Failures, Especially Software
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Part 5: Legal, Management and Safety Considerations
- Chapter 18: Project Management and Competence
- Chapter 19: Contract Clauses and Their Pitfalls
- Chapter 20: Product Liability and Safety Legislation
- Chapter 21: Major Incident Legislation
- Chapter 22: Integrity of Safety-Related Systems
- Chapter 23: A Case Study: The Datamet Project
- Chapter 24: A Case Study: Gas Detection System
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Chapter 25: A Case Study: Pressure Control System
- Abstract
- 25.1. The Unprotected System
- 25.2. Protection System
- 25.3. Assumptions
- 25.4. Reliability Block Diagram
- 25.5. Failure Rate Data
- 25.6. Quantifying the Model
- 25.7. Proposed Design and Maintenance Modifications
- 25.8. Modeling Common Cause Failure (Pressure Transmitters)
- 25.9. Quantifying the Revised Model
- 25.10. ALARP
- 25.11. Architectural Constraints
- Chapter 26: Helicopter Incidents and Risk Assessment
- Appendix 1: Glossary
- Appendix 2: Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution
- Appendix 3: Microelectronic Failure Rates
- Appendix 4: General Failure Rates
- Appendix 5: Failure Mode Percentages
- Appendix 6: Human Error Probabilities
- Appendix 7: Fatality Rates
- Appendix 8: Answers to Exercises
- Appendix 9: Bibliography
- Appendix 10: Scoring Criteria for BETAPLUS Common Cause Model
- Appendix 11: Example of HAZOP
- Appendix 12: HAZID Checklist
- Appendix 13: Markov Analysis of Redundant Systems
- Appendix 14: Calculating the GDF
- Index
- Technis
Product information
- Title: Reliability, Maintainability and Risk, 9th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2017
- Publisher(s): Butterworth-Heinemann
- ISBN: 9780081020227
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