Quality Control category: 855 books
Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects
Beyond the Myth of Predictability
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Investors and managers of major projects know how often they result in cost overruns and schedule delays. Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects builds on conventional best practice to provide a risk-based view of current practices for planning and executing large international projects.
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Data-Driven Remaining Useful Life Prognosis Techniques
Stochastic Models, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book introduces data-driven remaining useful life prognosis techniques, and shows how to utilize the condition monitoring data to predict the remaining useful life of stochastic degrading systems and to schedule maintenance and logistics plans. It is also the first book that describes the basic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems discusses the use of computer simulation-based techniques and algorithms to determine reliability and availability (R and A) levels in complex systems. The book: shares theoretical or applied models and decision support systems...
by Kenneth E. Isman
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This important new manual goes beyond the published NFPA standards on installation of standpipe systems to include the rules in the International Building Code, municipal fire codes, the National Fire Code of Canada, and information on inspection, testing, and maintenance of standpipe systems. Also...
Doubt-Free Uncertainty In Measurement
An Introduction for Engineers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This volume presents measurement uncertainty and uncertainty budgets in a form accessible to practicing engineers and engineering students from across a wide range of disciplines. The book gives a detailed explanation of the methods presented by NIST in the “GUM” – Guide to Uncertainty of Measurement....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Today's marketplace demands product reliability. At the same time, it places ever-increasing demands on products that push the limits of their performance and their functional life, and it does so with the expectation of lower per-unit product costs. To meet these demands, product design now requires...
Thermodynamic Degradation Science
Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue, and Reliability Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Thermodynamic degradation science is a new and exciting discipline. This book merges the science of physics of failure with thermodynamics and shows how degradation modeling is improved and enhanced when using thermodynamic principles.
The author also goes beyond the traditional physics of...
by K. Holmberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Scientists from four countries cooperated in a reseach effort aimed at the imporvement of operational reliability via innovations in design and testing and systematic maintenance. The scientists had varied backgrounds ranging from mathematic to applied mechanical engineering, and the results fo this effort are documented in this book.
Principles of Loads and Failure Mechanisms
Applications in Maintenance, Reliability and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Failure of components or systems must be prevented by both designers and operators of systems, but knowledge of the underlying mechanisms is often lacking. Since the relation between the expected usage of a system and its failure behavior is unknown, unexpected failures often occur, with possibly...
by Ulrich Hauptmanns
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Accidents in technical installations are random events. Hence they cannot be totally avoided. Only the probability of their occurrence may be reduced and their consequences be mitigated. The book proceeds from hazards caused by materials and process conditions to indicating technical and organizational...
by Atia Adrees
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This relevant and timely thesis presents the pioneering use of risk-based assessment tools to analyse the interaction between electrical and mechanical systems in mixed AC/DC power networks at subsynchronous frequencies. It also discusses assessing the effect of uncertainties in the mechanical parameters...
Through-life Engineering Services
Motivation, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Demonstrating the latest research and analysis in the area of through-life engineering services (TES), this book utilizes case studies and expert analysis from an international array of practitioners and researchers – who together represent multiple manufacturing sectors: aerospace, railway and...
Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3
Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents...
by Ashfaque Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Although tens of thousands of global users have implemented Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) for enterprise data processing for decades, there has been a need for a dependable reference on the subject, particularly for SAP materials management (SAP MM).Filling this need, The SAP Materials Management Handbook provides a complete understandi