Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers
9th Edition
Published on 15. March 2017
478 pages
978-0-08-102022-7 (ISBN)
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
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David J. Smith
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems
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06/2011
8th Edition
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Person
Dr. David J. Smith is the Proprietor of Technis Consultancy. He has written numerous books on Reliability and Safety over the last 40 years. His FARADIP database has become widely used, and his other software packages are also used throughout the profession. His PhD thesis was on the subject of reliability prediction and common cause failure. He contributed to the first drafting of IEC 61508 and chairs the IGEM panel which produces SR/15 (the gas industry safety related guidance). David is past President of the Safety and Reliability Society.
Content
Part 1: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs1. The History of Reliability and Safety Technology2. Understanding Terms and Jargon3. A Cost-Effective Approach to Quality, Reliability and Safety
Part 2: Interpreting Failure Rates4. Realistic Failure Rates and Prediction Confidence5. Interpreting Data and Demonstrating Reliability6. Variable Failure Rates and Probability Plotting
Part 3: Predicting Reliability and Risk7. Basic Reliability Prediction Theory8. Methods of Modeling9. Quantifying the Reliability Models10. Risk Assessment (QRA)
Part 4: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability11. Design and Assurance Techniques12. Design Review, Test and Reliability Growth13. Field Data Collection and Feedback14. Factors Influencing Down Time15. Predicting and Demonstrating Repair Times16. Quantified Reliability Centered Maintenance17. Systematic Failures, Especially Software
Part 5: Legal, Management and Safety Considerations18. Project Management and Competence19. Contract Clauses and Their Pitfalls20. Product Liability and Safety Legislation21. Major Incident Legislation22. Integrity of Safety-Related Systems23. A Case Study: The Datamet Project24. A Case Study: Gas Detection System25. A Case Study: Pressure Control System26. Helicopter Incidents and Risk Assessment
Appendix 1: GlossaryAppendix 2: Percentage Points of the Chi-Square DistributionAppendix 3: Microelectronic Failure RatesAppendix 4: General Failure RatesAppendix 5: Failure Mode PercentagesAppendix 6: Human Error ProbabilitiesAppendix 7: Fatality RatesAppendix 8: Answers to ExercisesAppendix 9: BibliographyAppendix 10: Scoring Criteria for BETAPLUS Common Cause ModelAppendix 11: Example of HAZOPAppendix 12: HAZID ChecklistAppendix 13: Markov Analysis of Redundant SystemsAppendix 14: Calculating the GDF
