Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers

by David J. Smith

Overview

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Tenth Edition has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects and failures for over 40 years. For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described, realistic and illustrative examples and case studies add new insights and assistance. The author uses his more than 40 years of experience to create a comprehensive and detailed guide to the field, while also providing an excellent description of reliability and risk computation concepts.

The book is organized into many parts, covering reliability parameters and costs, the history of reliability and safety technology, a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety, how to interpret failure rates, a focus on the prediction of reliability and risk, a discussion of design and assurance techniques, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323912617
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/07/2021
Edition description:	10th ed.
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. David J. Smith is the Proprietor of Technis Consultancy. He has written numerous books on Reliability and Safety over the last 40 years. His FARADIP database has become widely used, and his other software packages are also used throughout the profession. His PhD thesis was on the subject of reliability prediction and common cause failure. He contributed to the first drafting of IEC 61508 and chairs the IGEM panel which produces SR/15 (the gas industry safety related guidance). David is past President of the Safety and Reliability Society.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs 1. The History of Reliability and Safety Technology 2. Understanding Terms and Jargon 3. A Cost-Effective Approach to Quality, Reliability and Safety

Part 2: Interpreting Failure Rates 4. Realistic Failure Rates and Prediction Confidence 5. Interpreting Data and Demonstrating Reliability 6. Variable Failure Rates and Probability Plotting

Part 3: Predicting Reliability and Risk 7. Basic Reliability Prediction Theory 8. Methods of Modeling 9. Quantifying the Reliability Models 10. Risk Assessment (QRA)

Part 4: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability 11. Design and Assurance Techniques 12. Design Review, Test and Reliability Growth 13. Field Data Collection and Feedback 14. Factors Influencing Down Time 15. Predicting and Demonstrating Repair Times 16. Quantified Reliability Centered Maintenance 17. Systematic Failures, Especially Software

Part 5: Legal, Management and Safety Considerations 18. Project Management and Competence 19. Contract Clauses and Their Pitfalls 20. Product Liability and Safety Legislation 21. Major Incident Legislation 22. Integrity of Safety-Related Systems 23. A Case Study: The Datamet Project 24. A Case Study: Gas Detection System 25. A Case Study: Pressure Control System 26. Helicopter Incidents and Risk Assessment

Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution Appendix 3: Microelectronic Failure Rates Appendix 4: General Failure Rates Appendix 5: Failure Mode Percentages Appendix 6: Human Error Probabilities Appendix 7: Fatality Rates Appendix 8: Answers to Exercises Appendix 9: Bibliography Appendix 10: Scoring Criteria for BETAPLUS Common Cause Model Appendix 11: Example of HAZOP Appendix 12: HAZID Checklist Appendix 13: Markov Analysis of Redundant Systems Appendix 14: Calculating the GDF

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From the Publisher

Enables engineers to meet the contractual and legal expectations of regulators and customers of their products and services

Editorial Reviews

For engineers who are not specialists in the area, explains the principles for preventing failure in a wide range of systems. First published in 1981 and updated here from the 1993 edition to widen the discussion of safety-related systems and risk, reliability-centered maintenance, software now available for personal computers, and other topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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