Courses




Course ID RE 601
Course Reliability Engineering : Basic Principles
Prerequisites None
Contents Elements of probability theory. Elements of statistical theory. Some general stochastic processes. Statistical failure models. System reliability. Reliability improvemt. Maintainability and availability.  Fault tree analysis, Failure mode effect analysis. Reliability physics models.
References N.R. Mann, R.E. Schafer & N.D. Singpurwalla, Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life Data, John Wiley & Sons, 1974. L.S. Srinath, Concepts of Reliability Engg., Affiliated East-Wast Press (P) Ltd., 1985. A.K. Govil, Reliability Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1983. E. Balagurusmy, Reliability Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1984. B.S. Dhillion, C. Singh, Engineering Reliability, John Wiley & Sons, 1980. M.L. Shooman, Probabilistic, Reliability, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968. P.D.T. Conor, Practical Reliability Engg., John Wiley & Sons, 1985. K.C. Kapur, L.R. Lamberson, Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1977.