Development Evaluations
Basic reliability models
- Characteristic functions of reliability
- Reliability models
- The bathtub curve
Reliability of systems
- Types of configurations (serial, parallel, combined, complex)
- Methods for solving different types of configurations
- State-dependent systems (Markov analysis)
Physical reliability models
- Covariate models
- Static models
- Dynamic models
Design for reliability
- Reliability allocation
- Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)
- Fault tree analysis (FTA)
Maintainability
- Characteristic functions of maintainability
- Maintainability models
- Types of maintenance (reactive, preventive, predictive)
- Design for maintainability
Availability
- Types of availability
- Availability models
- Availability of systems
Documents
Lecture notes
Practicals