Engineering Reliability: Fundamentals and Applications

Emphasizing the fundamentals and applications of classical concepts in reliability engineering, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the basics of probability and random variables, the significance of reliability evaluation, combinatorial aspects of system reliability, including the consideration of three-state devices, Markov models and the study of repairable components, a collection of approximate but useful methods for system reliability evaluation, dozens of applications for the above topics, the close relationship between reliability and economics, and accelerated testing and models.