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An Elementary Guide to Reliability, Second Edition (Paperback)

An Elementary Guide to Reliability, Second Edition (Paperback)

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GOOD: This paperback book is in good condition, with only slight wear. Its pages are beginning to show the book's age with some tanning near the edges. There is no writing on the pages.

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"An Elementary Guide to Reliability explains in simple, largely non-technical language what is meant by reliability and the various factors which make an equipment or machine reliable. It deals with basic considerations which apply equally to electrical, electronic, or mechanical designs, even though examples are drawn from electronics, where reliability is more widely accepted and which is the authors' main field of experience. "—G.W.A. Dummer and R.C. Winton

Reliability Engineering is that engineering discipline which strives to determine the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for individual components within a device in order to determine the MTBF of the complete device. As an example the book uses the old undersea cable amplifiers cost to repair as $100,000 (substituting dollars for pounds), the life expectancy of the cable to be 40 years and the failure rate of the amplifiers to be once every 20 years as being acceptable. If, however, the failure rate of the amplifiers was once every 2 years the cost would climb to a point that it would be impossible for anyone to use the cable. Therefore the amplifier parts must be constructed and tested to ensure a reliability of 20 years. This is an example of the underlying need for reliability testing.

Chapters include:

  1. The Importance of Reliability
  2. Definitions of Reliability
  3. Some Simple Statistics
  4. How Reliability is Calculated
  5. The Effect of Operating Conditions and Environments
  6. Installation and Operability
  7. Maintainability
  8. Reporting Failures
  9. The Cost of Reliability
References for Further Reading
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AUTHOR: Dummer;G.W.A. and R.C. Winton
PUBLISHER: Pergamon Press
ISBN-13: N/A
ISBN-10: 0080178219
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