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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.
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Springer Series in Reliability Engineering Ajit Kumar Verma Srividya Ajit Durga Rao Karanki Reliability and Safety Engineering Second Edition Springer Series in Reliability Engineering Series editor Hoang Pham, Piscataway, USA More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6917 Ajit Kumar Verma Srividya Ajit Durga Rao Karanki • Reliability and Safety Engineering Second Edition 123 Ajit Kumar Verma ATØM Stord/Haugesund University College Haugesund Norway Durga Rao Karanki Paul Scherrer Institute Villigen PSI Switzerland Srividya Ajit ATØM Stord/Haugesund University College Haugesund Norway ISSN 1614-7839 ISSN 2196-999X (electronic) Springer Series in Reliability Engineering ISBN 978-1-4471-6268-1 ISBN 978-1-4471-6269-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-6269-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015944434 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht © Springer-Verlag London 2010, 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer-Verlag London Ltd. is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) To our gurus: Bhagwan Sri. Sathya Sai Baba Paramhamsa Swami Sathyananda Pujya Mata Amritanandaji Smt. Vijaya and Sri.