Free Shipping Over $89 - Limited Time Only - T&C's Apply
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
Springer Reliability Engineering : Springer Series In Reliability Engineering - Toshio Nakagawa

Springer Reliability Engineering

By: Toshio Nakagawa

Paperback | 24 August 2005

At a Glance

Paperback

$249.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $62.25 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

Many serious accidents have happened in the world where systems have been large-scale and complex, and have caused heavy damage and a social sense of instability. Furthermore, advanced nations have almost ?nished public inf- structureandrushedintoamaintenanceperiod.Maintenancewillbemore- portant than production, manufacture, and construction, that is, more ma- tenance for environmental considerations and for the protection of natural resources. From now on, the importance of maintenance will increase more and more. In the past four decades, valuable contributions to maintenance policies in reliability theory have been made. This book is intended to s- marize the research results studied mainly by the author in the past three decades. The book deals primarily with standard to advanced problems of main- nance policies for system reliability models. System reliability can be mainly improved by repair and preventive maintenance, and replacement, and rel- bility properties can be investigated by using stochastic process techniques. The optimum maintenance policies for systems that minimize or maximize appropriate objective functions under suitable conditions are discussed both analytically and practically. The book is composed of nine chapters. Chapter 1 is devoted to an int- duction to reliability theory, and brie?y reviews stochastic processes needed for reliability and maintenance theory. Chapter 2 summarizes the results of repair maintenance, which is the most basic maintenance in reliability. The repair maintenance of systems such as the one-unit system and multiple-unit redundant systems is treated. Chapters 3 through 5 summarize the results of three typical maintenance policies of age, periodic, and block replacements.
Industry Reviews

"Maintenance is likely to become the most importance aspect of system performance in 21st century. This book by Prof. Nakagawa is timely and important contribution to the literature on maintenance engineering.

"The reviewer would like to recommend the book to all maintenance engineers from various industries, plants and services who intend to make use of tools available to analyze their systems to reduce overall maintenance costs, which very often bother system managers and administrators." (Krisnha B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 2, (4), 2006)

You Can Find This Book In

Non-FictionEngineering & TechnologyTechnology in GeneralEngineering in GeneralMechanical Engineering & MaterialsMechanical EngineeringProduction & Industrial EngineeringReliability EngineeringTechnical DesignIndustrial Quality Control

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 14th March 2012

View Product

More in Production & Industrial Engineering

Mechanical Vibrations in SI Units : 6th edition - Singiresu Rao

Mechanical Vibrations in SI Units

6th edition

Paperback

RRP $166.90

$132.75

20%
OFF
Tech Startups Driving Innovation : Empowering Women in Bangladesh - Quazi Tafsirul Islam

Tech Startups Driving Innovation

Empowering Women in Bangladesh

Hardcover

RRP $183.00

$162.75

11%
OFF
Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants - S. Can Gülen

Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Power Plants

Hardcover

RRP $357.00

$306.99

14%
OFF
Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers - R. Keith Mobley

Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

Paperback

RRP $206.95

$162.75

21%
OFF

This product is categorised by