This book presents thirty-one extensive and carefully edited chapters providing an up-to-date survey of new models and methods for reliability analysis and applications in science, engineering, and technology. The chapters contain broad coverage of the latest developments and innovative techniques in a wide range of theoretical and numerical issues in the field of statistical and probabilistic methods in reliability.

Autorentext
An authoritative state-of-the-art survey of new statistical and
probabilistic models for reliability models and analysis. An
essential resource for researchers, practitioners and professionals in
industrial statistics, applied probability, reliability and risk
analysis.

Zusammenfassung
Presents thirty-one chapters that provide a survey of models and methods for reliability analysis and applications in science, engineering, and technology. This book contains coverage of the developments and innovative techniques in a range of theoretical and numerical issues in the field of statistical and probabilistic methods in reliability.

Inhalt

General Approach; Reliability: Past, Present and Future; Reliability Analysis as a Tool for Expressing and Communicating Uncertainty; II Probability Models and Related Issues; Modeling a Process of Non-Ideal Repair; Some Models and Mathematical Results for Reliability of Systems of Components; Algorithms of Stochastic Activity and Problems of Reliability; Some Shifted Stochastic Orders; Characterization of Distributions in Reliability; III Asymptotic Analysis; Asymptotic Analysis of Reliability for Switching Systems in Light and Heavy Traffic Conditions; Nonlinearly Perturbed Markov Chains and Large Deviations for Lifetime Functionals; Evolutionary Systems in an Asymptotic Split Phase Space; On Asymptotic Approach to Multistate Systems Reliability Evaluation; IV Statistical Models and Data Analysis; Computer Intensive Methods Based on Resampling in Analysis of Reliability and Survival Data; Statistical Analysis of Damage Processes; Data Analysis Based on Warranty Database; Failure Models Indexed by Time and Usage; A new multiple Proof Loads Approach for Estimating Correlations; Conditional and Partial Correlation for Graphical Uncertainty Models; V Common Methods to Reliability and