| This 6th edition incorporates brand new material on the accuracy of reliability prediction and common cause failure based on the author's PhD research work. David J. Smith approaches these subjects from an entirely original and unique viewpoint, emphasising that the need to demonstrate that safety-related systems have been assessed against target integrity levels is now commonplace in most industries, and the material contained in this book will address these growing needs.
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has now been established for over 20 years. It deals with all aspects of reliability, maintainability and safety-related failures in a simple and straightforward style, explaining technical terms and jargon and handling the imitations of reliability parameters. It pre-supposes no prior knowledge of the subject - the author deals with numerical data making realistic predictions using the minimum of mathematics.
Readers will be getting brand new and original information that they cannot get from any other title on the subject of Reliability, Maintainability and Risk.
Author is well known and has an excellent track record in this area. He is regarded as highly "readable" and his writing concise and straightforward.
Textbook on reliability featuring new material on the accuracy of reliability prediction and common cause failure based on the PhD work of the author. Approaches these subjects from a new and unique perspective, dealing with numerical data making predictions using a minimum of mathematics. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover. DLC: Reliability (Engineering).
A well-established book has been considerably expanded in this fully revised fifth edition to take account of: * RCM and the optimization of maintenance strategies * Trends in the integrity of safety-related systems * Risk assessment * Updated information on software tools for reliability and risk assessment
About the Author
Dr. David J Smith BSc, PhD, CEng, FIEE, HonFSaRS, FIQA, MIGasE, has been directly concerned with reliability, safety and software quality for 30 years. He has written a number of books on the subject as well as numerous papers. His PhD thesis was on the subject of reliability prediction accuracy and common cause failure. He chairs the IGasE panel which develops its guidelines on safety-related systems (now in its third edition). He has also made contributions to IEC 61508. |