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Reliability Engineering (Elective-III)
(502211-A)
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme:
Lectures: 3 Hrs per week Paper: 100 Marks
Paper Duration: 3 Hrs.
1) Fundamental concepts:-
Reliability definitions, failure, Failure density, Failure Rate, Hazard Rate, Mean Time To Failure, MTBF, maintainability, availability , pdf, cdf, safety and reliability, Quality,cost and system effectiveness, Life characteristic phases, modes of failure, Areas of reliability,Quality and reliability assurance rules, product liability, Importance of Reliability,
2) Probability theory:-
Set theory, laws of probability, total probability theorem, probability distributionsbinomial,normal, poisson , lognormal, weibull , exponential, standard deviation,variance, skewness coefficient , chebyshev inequality, central limit theorem.
3) System reliability and modelling:
Series, parallel, mixed configuration, k- out of n structure, complex systems- enumeration method, conditional probability method, cut set and tie set method, Redundancy, element redundancy, unit redundancy, standby redundancy- types of stand by redundancy, parallel components single redundancy, multiple redundancy. Markov analysis.
4) Maintainability and Availability:
Objectives of maintenance, types of maintenance, Maintainability, factors affecting maintainability, system down time, Availability - Inherent, Achieved and Operational availability, reliability and maintainability trade-off.
5) System reliability Analysis:
Reliability allocation or apportionment, Reliability apportionment techniques – equal apportionment, AGREE, ARINC, feasibility of objectives apportionment, dynamic programming apportionment, Reliability block diagrams and models, Reliability predictions from predicted unreliability, minimum effort method.
6) Strength based reliability:
Safety factor, safety margin, Stress strength interaction,
7) Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis-
Failure mode effects analysis, severity/criticality analysis , FMECA examples, RPN,Ishikawa diagram for failure representation , fault tree construction, basic symbols development of functional reliability block diagram, Fau1t tree analysis, fault tree evaluation techniques, minimal cut set method, Delphi methods, Monte carlo evaluation.
8) Design of Mechanical components and systems:-
Material strengths and loads, Reliability testing and reliability growth testing.
Reference Books
L.S. Srinath, Concepts of Reliability Engg., Affiliated East-Wast Press (P) Ltd., 1985.
A.K. Govil, Reliability Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1983.
E. Balagurusmy, Reliability Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd.,
1984.
B.S. Dhillion, C. Singh, Engineering Reliability, John Wiley & Sons, 1980.
M.L. Shooman, Probabilistic, Reliability, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968.
P.D.T. Conor, Practical Reliability Engg., John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
K.C. Kapur, L.R. Lamberson, Reliability in Engineering Design, John Wiley & Sons,1977.
A.Birolini , Reliability Engineering, Theory and Practice, Third Edition, Springer,1999
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