Component and System Reliability

Reliability is one of the four components of SdF, which are Reliability, Maintainability, Availability, and Safety. This fundamental component of SdF is taught in this course unit, covering both qualitative and quantitative aspects.

Provide the fundamental elements for the statistical study of component and system reliability. Students must know how to use these concepts to analyze component and system reliability and propose solutions to improve it, based on functional analysis and test results.

Probability calculations and statistical calculations

Recommended prerequisites:

Knowledge of Poisson, Exponential, Normal, and Weibull distributions is recommended.

A final exam

Component and system reliability

Introduction to Operational Safety: reliability, maintainability, availability, and security.

Definition of Reliability

Failure study and analysis: Maintenance Optimization through Reliability (OMF), functional analysis, FMEA, Pareto's law, reliability graphs.

Quality: concept, management, cost...

Reliability calculations: functions: reliability, failure probability, failure probability density, failure rate, MTBF, mathematical expectation of failures, reliability composition laws (series, redundancies)

Reliability Analysis Using Normal, Exponential, and Weibull Laws

Models of accelerated aging (Arrhenius model, Eyring model, etc.); concepts of accelerated aging

CM: 4:30 p.m.