Reliability Modeling of Coherent Systems

Reliability is an important part of various fields, from communication and transportation to energy transmission and counter-terrorism protection, and this book features numerous statistical methods and algorithms within reliability engineering as well as the needed mathematical background and numerical examples to ensure, optimize, and/or solve issues related to coherent systems. The current functionality of system components are discussed, and various statistical techniques are applied to analyze the reliability of the systems in an effort to prevent system failure. The book contains many illustrative numerical examples and explanatory figures throughout in addition to numerous exercises with solutions and explanations. Topical coverage includes: lifetime distributions and reliability measures; reliability of systems as a function of components reliability; signature based reliability of coherent systems; conditional reliability of used coherent systems at the component level; conditional reliability of coherent systems at the system level; and reliability of live components is used coherent systems.