Springer Reliability Engineering

By: Hongzhou Wang, Hoang Pham

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Paperback | 28 October 2010

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360 Pages

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This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability, maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot topics: imperfect maintenance, economic dependence, opportunistic maintenance, quasi-renewal processes, warranty with maintenance and economic dependency, and software testing and maintenance. This book is distinct from others because it consists mainly of research work published on technical journals and conferences in recent years by us and our co-authors. Maintenance involves preventive and unplanned actions carried out to retain a system at or restore it to an acceptable operating condition. Optimal maintenance policies aim to provide optimum system reliability and safety performance at the lowest possible maintenance costs. Proper maintenance techniques have been emphasized in recent years due to increased safety and reliability requirements of systems, increased complexity, and rising costs of material and labor. For some systems, such as aircraft, submarines, and nuclear power stations, it is extremely important to avoid failure during actual operation because it is dangerous and disastrous.

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From the reviews: "The study of various maintenance policies and models in order to prevent the occurrence of system failure, and reduce maintenance costs is an important area in reliability engineering. ! The book may be considered as a state-of-the-art survey of reliability and maintenance theory and models. As such, it is well addressed to postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners in reliability and maintenance engineering, operations research, industrial and mechanical engineering, logistics management and statistics." (Vangelis Grigoroudis, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1128 (6), 2008) "Recently, some very good books on the subject of optimal maintenance policies and models have been available in the literature. This is one of them... Since the most practical method of system reliability or availability assessment is Monte Carlo simulation when other analytical methods become unwieldy or cumbersome to use, the authors have devoted some 20 pages to cover this aspect along with variance reduction techniques, which are inevitable in any simulation approach. There are very few books on reliability that attempt to discuss this in sufficient detail...Another indispensable part of this book is 32 pages list of references included by the authors which provides a reader an indication of how several new developments have taken place in this area over a period of about four decades. "The reviewer feels, this book will prove to be a good help to a graduate student or a researcher who intends to know the state-of-the-art in the area of optimal maintenance models and policies." (Krisnha B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4, (3), 2008)

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