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Stochastic Modeling for Reliability
Shocks, Burn-in and Heterogeneous populations
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Focusing on shocks modeling, burn-in and heterogeneous populations, Stochastic Modeling for Reliability naturally combines these three topics in the unified stochastic framework and presents numerous practical examples that illustrate recent theoretical findings of the authors.
The populations...
Recent Advances in System Reliability
Signatures, Multi-state Systems and Statistical Inference
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Recent Advances in System Reliability discusses developments in modern reliability theory such as signatures, multi-state systems and statistical inference. It describes the latest achievements in these fields, and covers the application of these achievements to reliability engineering practice.
The...
by R.A. Shenoi, J.J. Xiong
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Engineering is an attempt to present an integrated and unified approach to reliability determination of fatigue and fracture behaviour, incorporating probability, statistics and other related areas.
A series of original and practical approaches, are suggested...
Risk and Reliability Analysis: Theory and Applications
In Honor of Prof. Armen Der Kiureghian
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book presents a unique collection of contributions from some of the foremost scholars in the field of risk and reliability analysis. Combining the most advanced analysis techniques with practical applications, it is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date books available on risk-based engineering.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book proposes the formulation of an efficient methodology that estimates energy system uncertainty and predicts Remaining Useful Life (RUL) accurately with significantly reduced RUL prediction uncertainty.
Renewable and non-renewable sources of energy are being used to supply the demands...
Reliability Physics and Engineering
Time-To-Failure Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
"Reliability Physics and Engineering" provides critically important information for designing and building reliable cost-effective products. The textbook contains numerous example problems with solutions. Included at the end of each chapter are exercise problems and answers. "Reliability...
by Mauricio Sánchez-Silva, Georgia-Ann Klutke
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book compiles and critically discusses modern engineering system degradation models and their impact on engineering decisions. In particular, the authors focus on modeling the uncertain nature of degradation considering both conceptual discussions and formal mathematical formulations. It also...
Assessment of Power System Reliability
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
The importance of power system reliability is demonstrated when our electricity supply is disrupted, whether it decreases the comfort of our free time at home or causes the shutdown of our companies and results in huge economic deficits.
The objective of Assessment of Power System Reliability...
Arbeitsschutzmanagementsysteme nach OHSAS 18001
Grundwissen für Praktiker
Language: German
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Jana Brauweiler und Anke Zenker-Hoffmann stellen in diesem Essential Anforderungen an Arbeitsschutzmanagementsysteme (AMS) nach der Occupational Health Safety Assessment Series 18001 (OHSAS 18001) vor. Die Autorinnen definieren Begriffe und systematisieren die vorhandenen Konzepte zur Einführung...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The pilot study on Food Chain Security was launched in 2003 by NATO Public Diplomacy Division Science for Peace and Security Section (SPS) under the leadership of Turkey. The purpose of the study was to study the safety and security of food stuffs in the face of their careless/ignorant handling as...
by Terje Aven, Uwe Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date presentation of some of the classical areas of reliability, based on a more advanced probabilistic framework using the modern theory of stochastic processes. This framework allows analysts to formulate general failure models, establish formulae for computing...
Probabilistic Safety Assessment of WWER440 Reactors
Prediction, Quantification and Management of the Risk
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The aim of this book is to summarize probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants with WWER440 reactors and demonstrate that the plants are safe enough for producing energy even in light of the Fukushima accident. The book examines level 1 and 2 full power, low power and shutdown...
Software Failure Investigation
A Near-Miss Analysis Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book reviews existing operational software failure analysis techniques and proposes near-miss analysis as a novel, and new technique for investigating and preventing software failures. The authors provide details on how near-miss analysis techniques focus on the time-window before the software...
Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business
How to Protect Your Business, Customers, and Employees
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business is a reliable guide to help protect companies, their customers, and their employees from the growing problem of identity theft. Real-life examples show managers and executives how to identify business, customer, and employee identity theft, how these crimes...