MAJOR TOPICS AND HIGHLIGHTS

covered in the

AME 472/572-Reliability Engineering Course

Offered Each Fall Semester

Course Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

 

  • Reliability Engineering Applications and Benefits.

 

  • Reliability Defined.

 

  • Five Basic, Analytical Functions in Reliability Engineering:  (1).Times-to-Failure Distribution; (2) Reliability: (3). Conditional Reliability; (4). Failure Rate; (5). Mean Life.

 

  • Determination of Component and System Times-to-Failure and Life Characteristics.

 

  • The Exponential, Weibull, Lognormal Distributions.

 

  • Early, Chance and Wearout Reliability.

 

  • Reliability with Multiple Failure Modes.

 

  • Reliability Bath-Tub Curve Models

 

  • Reliability of Series, Parallel and Standby Systems.

 

  • Reliability of the Binomial and Poisson Distributions to the Prediction of the Reliability of Complex Systems.

 

  • Reliability of Systems with Multimode Function and Logic, Multiple Stress Levels of Function, Load Sharing, and Static and Cyclic Switches.
  • System Reliability Prediction and Target Reliability.
  • Reliability of Components with a Policy of Replacing Those that Fail by a Prescribed Operating Time
  • Reliability and Failure Rate Allocation.
  • Reliability Growth.
  • Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  • Numerous Applications and Case Histories.

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