ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
Reliability is part of the 4 components of SoTL which are Reliability, Maintainability, Availability and Safety. This fundamental component of SoTL is taught in this course on both qualitative and quantitative aspects.
Objectives
To give the fundamental elements for the statistical study of the reliability of components and systems. The students must know how to use these notions, from a functional analysis and test results, to analyze the reliability of components and systems and propose solutions to improve it.
Necessary pre-requisites
Probability and statistical calculations
Recommended prerequisites*:
Knowledge of Poisson, Exponential, Normal and Weibull Laws is recommended
Knowledge control
A final exam
Syllabus
Reliability of components and systems
Introduction to Dependability: reliability, maintainability, availability and safety.
Definition of Reliability
Study and analysis of failures: Optimization of Maintenance by Reliability "OMF", Functional Analysis, FMECA, Pareto's law, reliability graphs.
Quality: concept, management, cost...
Reliability calculations: functions: reliability, probability of failure, probability of failure density, failure rate, MTBF, Mathematical Expectation of Failures, composition laws of reliability (series, redundancies)
Reliability analysis by the Normal, Exponential and Weibull laws
Models of accelerated aging (Arrhenius model, Eyring model...); concepts of aggravated aging
Additional information
CM: 4:30 pm