Reliability and safety are core issues that must be addressed throughout
the life cycle of engineering systems. Reliability and Safety
Engineering presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with
simple and practical illustrations.
The authors present reliability terminology in various engineering
fields, viz., electronics engineering, software engineering, mechanical
engineering, structural engineering and power systems engineering. The
book describes the latest applications in the area of probabilistic
safety assessment, such as technical specification optimization, risk
monitoring and risk informed in-service inspection. Reliability and
safety studies must, inevitably, deal with uncertainty, so the book
includes uncertainty propagation methods: Monte Carlo simulation, fuzzy
arithmetic, Dempster-Shafer theory and probability bounds. Reliability
and Safety Engineering also highlights advances in system reliability
and safety assessment including dynamic system modeling and uncertainty
management. Case studies from typical nuclear power plants as well as
from structural, software and electronic systems are also discussed.
Reliability and Safety Engineering combines discussions of the existing
literature on basic concepts and applications with state-of-the-art
methods used in reliability and risk assessment of engineering systems.
It is designed to assist practicing engineers, students and researchers
in the areas of reliability engineering and risk analysis.
