This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date presentation of some of
the classical areas of reliability, based on a more advanced
probabilistic framework using the modern theory of stochastic processes.
This framework allows analysts to formulate general failure models,
establish formulae for computing various performance measures, as well
as determine how to identify optimal replacement policies in complex
situations.
In this second edition of the book, two major topics have been added to
the original version: copula models which are used to study the effect
of structural dependencies on the system reliability; and maintenance
optimization which highlights delay time models under safety
constraints.
Terje Aven is Professor of Reliability and Risk Analysis at University
of Stavanger, Norway. Uwe Jensen is working as a Professor at the
Institute of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the University of
Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany.
Review of first edition:
"This is an excellent book on mathematical, statistical and stochastic
models in reliability. The authors have done an excellent job of
unifying some of the stochastic models in reliability. The book is a
good reference book but may not be suitable as a textbook for students
in professional fields such as engineering. This book may be used for
graduate level seminar courses for students who have had at least the
first course in stochastic processes and some knowledge of reliability
mathematics. It should be a good reference book for researchers in
reliability mathematics."
--Mathematical Reviews (2000)
