Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers

David J. Smith BSc PhD CEng FIEE FIQA HonFSaRS MIGasE.9780750637527, 0-7506-3752-8

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk deals with all aspects of reliability, maintainability and safety-related failures in a simple and straightforward style, explaining technical terms and jargon and pre-supposing no prior knowledge of the subject. The author explains dealing with numerical data, making realistic predictions using the minimum of mathematics, and handling the limitations of reliability parameters.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