Reliability and Safety of Complex Technical Systems and Processes offers a comprehensive approach to the analysis, identification, evaluation, prediction and optimization of complex technical systems operation, reliability and safety. Its main emphasis is on multistate systems with ageing components, changes to their structure, and their components reliability and safety parameters during the operation processes.

Reliability and Safety of Complex Technical Systems and Processes presents integrated models for the reliability, availability and safety of complex non-repairable and repairable multistate technical systems, with reference to their operation processes and their practical applications to real industrial systems. The authors consider variables in different operation states, reliability and safety structures, and the reliability and safety parameters of components, as well as suggesting a cost analysis for complex technical systems.

Researchers and industry practitioners will find information on a wide range of complex technical systems in Reliability and Safety of Complex Technical Systems and Processes. It may prove an easy-to-use guide to reliability and safety evaluations of real complex technical systems, both during their operation and at the design stages.

Semi-Markov modelling provides the reader with the tools necessary to analyse reliability problems Problems and solutions provide readers with a frame of reference for their own work Applications allow the reader to connect theory to practice

Autorentext

Krzysztof Köowrocki is a professor and the Head of the Mathematics Department at the Faculty of Navigation of Gdynia Maritime University. His field of interest is the mathematical modeling of the safety and reliability of complex systems and processes. He has published over 300 scientific works. He is the Chairman of the Polish Safety and Reliability Association. Joanna Soszy ska-Budny is an assistant professor in Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Navigation of Gdynia Maritime University. Her field of interest is the mathematical modeling of the safety and reliability of complex systems at variable operation conditions. She has published over 80 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Inhalt

1. Modeling Reliability and Safety of Multistate Systems with Ageing Components.- 2. Modeling Complex Technical Systems Operation Processes.- 3. Complex Technical Systems Reliability, Availability and Safety Evaluation and Prediction.- 4. Complex Technical System Operation Processes Identification.- 5. Complex Technical System Components Reliability and Safety Identification.- 6. Complex Technical Systems Operation, Reliability, Availability, Safety and Cost Optimization.- 7. Additional Applications.