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Principles of System Reliability

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Overview

What is reliability? Reliability refers to the ability of a system, product, or service to perform its intended function, under specified conditions, for a given period of time.  For example, if a watch works precisely for 10 years, it can be considered as reliable. Reliability plays an important role in ensuring the field performance of a product. Poor reliability leads to malfunction, task delay, unexpected maintenance and cost, even disasters that cause the loss of human lives or assets.

So, it is important to strengthen the reliability throughout product life cycle. This includes various reliability activities to be taken, such as reliability modeling, analysis, design, testing, evaluation, and management. This course, Principles of System Reliability, is designed to introduce all these reliability activities systematically. After learning the course, you will master the principles of reliability, and the knowledge and skills to analyze and solve engineering cases in the perspective of reliability.

Welcome to this course, Principles of System Reliability! I am Dr. Ping Jiang, from National University of Defense Technology.

 



Syllabus

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
    • Section 1.1 Terms of reliability
    • Section 1.2 Reliability indices
    • Section 1.3 Reliability engineering & Failure distributions
  • Chapter 2 Reliability Models
    • Section 2.1 Reliability modeling
    • Section 2.2 Typical reliability models(1)
    • Section 2.3 Typical reliability models(2)
    • Section 2.4 Typical reliability models(3)
  • Chapter 3 Reliability Analysis
    • Section 3.1 Failure mode and effects analysis(FMEA)
    • Section 3.2 Fault tree analysis(FTA)
  • Chapter 4 Design for Reliability
    • Section 4.1 Reliability allocation
    • Section 4.2 Reliability prediction
    • Section 4.3 Design methods
    • Section 4.4 Redundancy
  • Chapter 5 Reliability Testing
    • Section 5.1 Reliability testing Classification and ESS
    • Section 5.2 Reliability growth testing
    • Section 5.3 Reliability life testing
    • Section 5.4 Reliability verification testing
    • Section 5.5 Sequential life testing
  • Chapter 6 Reliability Evaluation
    • Section 6.1 Reliability data collection
    • Section 6.2 Approximate evaluation method
    • Section 6.3 Traditional reliability evaluation method
    • Section 6.4 Bayesian priors
    • Section 6.5 Bayesian evaluation for units
    • Section 6.6 Reliability evaluation for system
  • Chapter 7 Reliability Management
    • Reliability management
  • Final Examination

    Taught by

    JIANG Ping , Tianyu LIU, XING Yunyan, YU Haiyue, and TANG Shuaiwen

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