Component and System Reliability

Reliability is one of the four components of the SdF, which are Reliability, Maintainability, Availability, and Security. This fundamental component of the SdF is covered in this course unit, addressing both its qualitative and quantitative aspects.

Provide the fundamentals for the statistical analysis of component and system reliability. Students should be able to use these concepts—based on a functional analysis and test results—to analyze the reliability of components and systems and propose solutions to improve it.

Probability and Statistical Calculations

Recommended prerequisites*:

Familiarity with the Poisson, Exponential, Normal, and Weibull distributions is recommended

A final exam

Reliability of Components and Systems

Introduction to Safety-Critical Systems: Reliability, Maintainability, Availability, and Safety.

Definition of Reliability

Failure Study and Analysis: Optimization of Maintenance Based on Reliability (OMF), Functional Analysis, FMEA, Pareto Principle, Reliability Charts.

Quality: Concept, Management, Cost...

Reliability Calculations: Functions: reliability, probability of failure, failure probability density, failure rate, MTBF, expected number of failures, reliability composition laws (series, redundancy)

Reliability Analysis Using the Normal, Exponential, and Weibull Distributions

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

CM: 4:30 p.m.