This Springer Handbook gathers the broad mix of theoretical and applied reliability knowledge needed for engineers, analysts, and scientists from all fields, with examples reflecting the growing importance of the subject in automotive, public transport, electronics, telecommunications, software, and other industries. Reliability is gaining increased public awareness and importance due to design flaws in existing systems such as railways, as well as concerns over other safety-critical systems, such as those used for the disposal of hazardous waste. Reliability is now a key concern during the design stage of most engineering projects.

The handbook's chapters have been written by many leading reliability experts in academia and industry, providing comprehensive and authoritative coverage under the supervision of a distinguished international advisory and editorial board to ensure clarity and precision throughout.

Reliability has a wide range of applications across various fields of engineering, including civil, mechanical, electronic, electrical, and manufacturing. This definitive Springer Handbook will be read and used as a practical guide and reference by professionals in these industries, as well as by researchers and professors in universities who require a single-volume, comprehensive reference on reliability and its applications.

Covers the full range of reliability topics, covering theoretical foundations, applications recent research results and future directions Contributions from leading experts drawn from industrial and academic backgrounds all over the world Fully up-to-date with all chapters newly commissioned or updated by their authors

Autorentext
Dr. Hoang Pham is a Distinguished Professor and the former Chairman of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is the author or coauthor of 6 books including Statistical Reliability Engineering (2022, Springer), and has published over 210 journal articles and 100 conference papers. He has edited 17 books, including the Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, 2nd edition (2023) and the Handbook of Reliability Engineering (2003, Springer). He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering and the Editor of the Springer Series in Reliability Engineering (with more than 100 volumes). His numerous awards include the 2009 IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award. Dr. Pham is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institude of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

Inhalt
1 Reliability Basics.- 2 Reliability of Systems with Multiple Failure Modes.- 3 Reliability analyses of linear two-dimensional consecutive k-type systems.- 4 Multi-State System Reliability Analysis and Optimization.- 5 Optimal Maintenance for System Failures Induced by the Generalized Polya Process.- 6 Life Distributions Based on MTTF Function in Age Replacement Policy.- 7 Reliability analysis of dependent competing failure processes with time-varying shock model.- 8 An Overview of Optimal Redundancy Allocation Focusing on Multi-Component Systems Subject to Fatal Shocks.- 9 Recent Studies in Software Reliability Engineering.- 10 Stochastic Modeling for Software Reliability.