Reliability and Availability Engineering
Modeling, Analysis, and Applications

Learn about the techniques used for evaluating the reliability and availability of engineered systems with this comprehensive guide.

Kishor S. Trivedi (Author), Andrea Bobbio (Author)

9781107099500, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 August 2017

726 pages
25.3 x 17.9 x 3.6 cm, 1.56 kg

'… Reliability and Availability Engineering is an excellent book that puts all the aspects of the dependability engineering, particularly, theoretical models, analysis methods, and practical applications, in one place. It is bound to become an indispensable guide and reference for a broad range of students, researchers, and practicing engineers interested in scientific studies and the practice of dependability engineering.' Xiwei Qiu and Yuanshun Dai, International Journal of Performability Engineering

Do you need to know what technique to use to evaluate the reliability of an engineered system? This self-contained guide provides comprehensive coverage of all the analytical and modeling techniques currently in use, from classical non-state and state space approaches, to newer and more advanced methods such as binary decision diagrams, dynamic fault trees, Bayesian belief networks, stochastic Petri nets, non-homogeneous Markov chains, semi-Markov processes, and phase type expansions. Readers will quickly understand the relative pros and cons of each technique, as well as how to combine different models together to address complex, real-world modeling scenarios. Numerous examples, case studies and problems provided throughout help readers put knowledge into practice, and a solutions manual and Powerpoint slides for instructors accompany the book online. This is the ideal self-study guide for students, researchers and practitioners in engineering and computer science.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction
2. Dependability evaluation
3. Dependability metrics defined on a single unit
Part II. Non-State-Space Models (Combinatorial Models): 4. Reliability block diagram
5. Network reliability
6. Fault tree analysis
7. State enumeration
8. Dynamic redundancy
Part III. State-Space Models with Exponential Distributions: 9. Continuous time Markov chain: availability models
10. Continuous time Markov chain: reliability models
11. Continuous time Markov chain: queueing systems
12. Petri nets
Part IV. State-Space Models with Non-Exponential Distributions: 13. Non-homogeneous CTMC
14. Semi-Markov and Markov regenerative models
15. Phase type expansion
Part V. Multi-Level Models
16. Hierarchical models
17. Fixed-point iteration
Part VI. Case Studies: 18. Case studies.

Subject Areas: Computer hardware [UK], Engineering: general [TBC]