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
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