Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis A Practical Guide
Preface
This book provides a practical and comprehensive overview of reliability and risk analysis techniques. It is written both for engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate levels and for practicing engineers. The book concentrates mainly on reliability analysis. In addition, elementary performance and risk analysis techniques have also been presented. Since reliability analysis is a multi- disciplinary subject, the scope is not limited to any one engineering discipline; rather, the material is applicable to most engineering disciplines. The contents of the book are based primarily on the materials used in three courses at the senior and undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Maryland, College Park. These courses have been offered over the past 15 years. This book has benefited greatly from the contribution of many talented students who actively
participated in gathering and updating practical and useful materials. Therefore, the book presents a large number of examples to clarify technical subjects. Additionally, there are many end-of-chapter exercises that are based mainly on the
prior exams and homework problem sets of the reliability and risk analysis courses at the University of Maryland.
The emphasis of the book is the introduction and explanation of methods and techniques used in reliability and risk studies, and discussion of their use and limitations rather than detailed derivations. These methods and techniques cover a wide range of topics that arise in routine reliability engineering and risk analysis activities. The book assumes that the readers have little or no background in
probability and statistics. Thus, following an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that defines reliability, availability, and risk analysis, Chapter 2 provides a detailed review of probability and statistics essential to understanding the reliability
methods discussed in the book.
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