Engineering Design Handbook: Development Guide for Reliability. Part Three. Reliability Prediction

Abstract

This handbook reviews the basic ideas and formulas in probability and statistics and shows the kinds of models that might be useful for the reliability of systems. The concept of s-independence is discussed very thoroughly since it is so important in reliability improvements wrought by redundancy. A large portion of the handbook deals with the effects of redundancy, simply because the calculation of reliability for nonredundant systems is so straightforward (although often tedious). The distinction between redundancy and repair is blurred in practice, especially when a failed unit is replaced by a good inactive unit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA032105

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Convex Programming
  • Damage Detection
  • Data Science
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Linear Programming
  • Logic Gates
  • Mathematical Models
  • Optimization
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Random Variables
  • Statistical Algorithms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Theoretical Analysis.