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Approaches to Ensuring the Reliability and Safety
From a reliability point of view, every technical object can be either in a serviceable…
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Failure Analysis
The analysis of failures is very important for revealing the cause of a particular failure,…
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Introduction to diagnostics
The reliability of many objects, machines, transport means, various appliances, or processes can be increased…
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Maintenance
The operational reliability and service life of machines, vehicles, various appliances, bridges, and many other…
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Time to Failure of Deteriorating Objects
As we have seen in Chapter 4, failure rate often changes with time (Fig. 1 there).…
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Reliability of Systems
Many objects consist of more parts or elements. From reliability point of view, an element…
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Bathtub Curve
Failure rate, as defined in Chapter 3, can change with time. Figure 1 shows the time course…
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Characteristics of Reliability
Reliability is usually characterized by the probability of failure or by the time to failure.…
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Probability basics
The occurrence of failures is usually accompanied by some uncertainty. This is due to many…
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Basic Terms of Reliability
In matters of reliability, people from various branches — manufacturers, customers, technicians, and lawyers —…