Handbook of Reliability Engineering 论文

摘要

In today's technological world nearly everyone depends upon the continued functioning of a wide array of complex machinery and equipment for our everyday safety, security, mobility and economic welfare.We expect our electric appliances, lights, hospital monitoring control, next-generation aircraft, nuclear power plants, data exchange systems, and aerospace applications, to function whenever we need them.When they fail, the results can be catastrophic, injury or even loss of life.As our society grows in complexity, so do the critical reliability challenges and problems that must be solved.The area of reliability engineering currently received a tremendous attention from numerous researchers and practitioners as well.This Handbook of Reliability Engineering, altogether 35 chapters, aims to provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art reference volume that covers both fundamental and theoretical work in the areas of reliability including optimization, multi-state system, life testing, burn-in, software reliability, system redundancy, component reliability, system reliability, combinatorial optimization, network reliability, consecutive-systems, stochastic dependence and aging, change-point modeling, characteristics of life distributions, warranty, maintenance, calibration modeling, step-stress life testing, human reliability, risk assessment, dependability and safety, fault tolerant systems, system performability, and engineering management.The Handbook consists of five parts.Part I of the Handbook contains five papers, deals with different aspects of System Reliability and Optimization.Chapter 1 by Zuo, Huang and Kuo studies new theoretical concepts and methods for performance evaluation of multi-state k-out-of-n systems.Chapter 2 by Pham describes in details the characteristics of system reliabilities with multiple failure modes.Chapter 3 by Chang and Hwang presents several generalizations of the reliability of consecutive-k-systems by exchanging the role of working and failed components in the consecutive-k-systems.Chapter 4 by Levitin and Lisnianski discusses various reliability optimization problems of multi-state systems with two failure modes using combination of universal generating function technique and genetic algorithm.Chapter 5 by Sung, Cho and Song discusses a variety of different solution and heuristic approaches, such as integer programming, dynamic programming, greedy-type heuristics, and simulated annealing, to solve various combinatorial reliability optimization problems of complex system structures subject to multiple resource and choice constraints.Part II of the Handbook contains five papers, focuses on the Statistical Reliability Theory.Chapter 6 by Finkelstein presents stochastic models for the observed failure Contents