Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Reliability for Engineers explains the fundamental concepts and tools for the processes and services. Several probabilistic frameworks have been proposed that model and preserve uncertainty and disagreement in reliability analysis. This Book gives some of the commercial programs for reliability as- sessment. They range from simple ones at moderate prices and suitable for a limited range of problems to program systems for the analysis of complex problems. For getting practice and for the solution of simple problems, the reader can create own programs based on universal software such as Excel, although their possibilities are limited. A simple Monte Carlo simulation program VaP enables the probabilistic analy- sis of a user-defined function G(x) depending on one or more random input variables. Several types of probability distributions can be used. Methods for reliability assessment and optimization are thus very important.
