Engineering Reliability Fundamentals and Applications

1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Probability and Random Variables. 3. Catastrophic Failure Models and Reliability Functions. 4. Probability Distribution Functions and Their Application in Reliability Evaluation. 5. Combinatorial Aspects of System Reliability. 6. Markov Models. 7. Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems Using Markov Models. 8. Approximate Methods. 9. Reliability and Economics. 10. Accelerated Testing and Models. Appendix A: Matrix Fundamentals. Appendix B: Boolean Algebra. Appendix C: The Laplace Transform. Appendix D: Differential Equations. Appendix E: Some Useful Derivatives and Integrals. Appendix F: The Beta Function. Appendix G: The Gamma Function. Appendix H: Tables of Values of Factorial n. Appendix I: Binomial Coefficients. Appendix J: Tables of Values of Exponential Functions. Appendix K: Standard Normal Curve Areas. Appendix L: Standard Normal Curve Ordinates. References. Answers to Problems. Index.Ramakumar, R. is the author of 'Engineering Reliability Fundamentals and Applications', published 1996 under ISBN 9780132767590 and ISBN 0132767597.