Reliability Engineering, Reliability Concepts and Definitions, Probabilistic Modelling, Redundancy, Reliability Block Diagrams, Reliability Modelling: Event Trees, Fault Trees, Series and Parallel Systems. Time dependent Reliability: Exponential, Weibull Distributions, Monte Carlo Methods
Learning Outcomes 1.Understand and appreciate the role of reliability analysis from an engineering and safety perspective 2.Model engineering systems using a number of reliability modelling methods and tools 3.Analyse the reliability of basic product/system design configurations and give appropriate recommendations for improvements 4.Identify, process and analyze relevant engineering reliability data