This book will sell because all engineers should be interested in limiting faults and increasing the reliability of the process or system with which they are working.

The more than 60 contributors are drawn from industrial and academic backgrounds all over the world Provides a broad mix of theoretical and applied reliability, with examples reflecting the growing importance of the subject to the automotive, public transport, electronics, telecommunications, software and other industries. This is gaining increased public awareness and therefore importance because of design flaws in existing systems such as railways and concerns over other safety-critical systems such as those used for the disposal of hazardous wastes. Reliability is now a key concern at the design stage of most engineering projects. Reliability has a wide field of application within many fields of engineering: civil, mechanical, electronic, electrical and manufacturing. Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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System Reliability and Optimization.- Multi-state k-out-of-n Systems.- Reliability of Systems with Multiple Failure Modes.- Reliabilities of Consecutive-k Systems.- Multi-state System Reliability Analysis and Optimization (Universal Generating Function and Genetic Algorithm Approach).- Combinatorial Reliability Optimization.- Statistical Reliability Theory.- Modeling the Observed Failure Rate.- Concepts of Stochastic Dependence in Reliability Analysis.- Statistical Reliability Change-point Estimation Models.- Concepts and Applications of Stochastic Aging in Reliability.- Class of NBU-t0 Life Distribution.- Software Reliability.- Software Reliability Models: A Selective Survey and New Directions.- Software Reliability Modeling.- Software Availability Theory and Its Applications.- Software Rejuvenation: Modeling and Applications.- Software Reliability Management: Techniques and Applications.- Recent Studies in Software Reliability Engineering.- Maintenance Theory and Testing.- Warranty and Maintenance.- Mechanical Reliability and Maintenance Models.- Preventive Maintenance Models: Replacement, Repair, Ordering, and Inspection.- Maintenance and Optimum Policy.- Optimal Imperfect Maintenance Models.- Accelerated Life Testing.- Accelerated Test Models with the Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution.- Multiple-steps Step-stress Accelerated Life Test.- Step-stress Accelerated Life Testing.- Practices and Emerging Applications.- Statistical Methods for Reliability Data Analysis.- The Application of Capture-Recapture Methods in Reliability Studies.- Reliability of Electric Power Systems: An Overview.- Human and Medical Device Reliability.- Probabilistic Risk Assessment.- Total Dependability Management.- Total Quality for Software Engineering Management.- Software Fault Tolerance.- Markovian Dependability/Performability Modeling of Fault-tolerant Systems.- Random-request Availability.