Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Assessment, Assessment, Hardware, Software and Human Factors

Alain Villemeur (Author)

9780471930495, Wiley

Hardback, published 19 December 1991

416 pages
25.7 x 19.9 x 3 cm, 1.021 kg

Part of a two-volume work which presents the methods and techniques used to assess and measure the dependability of industrial systems, this book concentrates on the specific methods used to solve reliability problems, taking into account human factors, mechanics and software.

SPECIFIC METHODS.

Dependent and Common-Cause Failures.

Human Factors.

Mechanics.

Software Domain.

Assessing Safety.

COMPUTERIZED METHODS.

Computer Codes for Dependability Assessment.

Automatic Assessment of Dependability.

CONCLUSIONS.

Dependability Assessment Approach.

Dependability Assessment Application.

CASE STUDIES.

Analysis of a Set of Elementary Systems by Different Methods.

Human Reliability Assessment.

Appendices.

Index.

Subject Areas: Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]