Reliability, Life Testing and the Prediction of Service Lives

This book is intended for students and practitioners who have had a calculus-based statistics course and who have an interest in safety considerations such as reliability, strength, and duration-of-load or service life.

This is a reliability textbook that introduces a new unified class of cumulative-damage distributions

Saunders has over 30 years of experience in reliability data with the Boeing Company

Contenu
Requisites.- Elements of Reliability.- Partitions and Selection.- Coherent Systems.- Applicable Life Distributions.- Philosophy, Science, and Sense.- Nonparametric Life Estimators.- Weibull Analysis.- Examine Data, Diagnose and Consult.- Cumulative Damage Distributions.- Analysis of Dispersion.- Damage Processes.- Service Life of Structures.- Strength and Durability.- Maintenance of Systems.- Mathematical Appendix.