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Reliability Engineering (ME-703 (D)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Reliability

  • Definition, Importance, History, Reliabilty Vs. Quality
  • Failure pattern of complex product, Factor of safety and reliability
  • Reliability analysis procedure, Reliability management, Some examples of system failures
  • Reliability function-MTTF, Hazard rate function, Bathtub curve
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Unit 2

Basic probability theory

  • Set theory, Laws of probability, Probability theorem
  • Random variables and probability distributions
  • Bay's Theorem, Central limit theorem
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Unit 3

Functions of random variables

  • Single, two and several random variables
  • Probability distribution functions, density functions for different types of discrete and continuous variables
  • mean, mode and median, Numerical solutions
  • Extremal distributions
  • derivation of the reliability function-constant failure rate model - time dependent failure models
  • Weibull distribution - normal distribution - the lognormal distribution
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Unit 4

Modeling of geometry, strength and loads

  • Fatigue strength, Time dependent reliability of components
  • Failure rate versus time, reliability and hazard functions and different distributions
  • Estimation of failure rate, Expected residual life
  • Series, parallel and mixed systems, complex systems
  • Reliability enhancement
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Unit 5

Reliability based design

  • Optimization problems
  • Failure modes and effect analysis
  • Event tree and fault tree analysis
  • Reliability testing, Reliability data and analysis, measurement of reliability
  • Monte Carlo Simulation, Computation of reliability
  • Optimization techniques for system reliability with redundancy - heuristic methods applied to optimal system reliability
  • redundancy allocation by dynamic programming - reliability optimization by non linear programming

Reference Books

  • Singiresu S. Rao, Reliability Engineering, Pearson
  • Grant E. L. & Leave Worth, Statistical Q. C., T.M.H.
  • Balagurusamy, Reliability Engg., T.M.H.
  • Mahajan, Statistical Q.C.
  • Juran and Grayan, Quality Planning Analysis, T.M.H
  • Charles E. Ebling, An introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engg, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2000
  • Atrick D T o'connor, Practical Reliability Engineringt, John-Wiley and Sons inc, 2002
  • David J Smith, Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Butterworth, 2002.
  • Srinath I.S, Engineering Design and Reliability, ISTE, 1999.
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