IS4351 Reliability Engineering Syllabus:

IS4351 Reliability Engineering Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES:

 Impart knowledge in reliability concepts.
 Facilitate students in filling the life data into theoretical distribution.
 Educate the students in reliability evaluation of various configuration.
 Impart knowledge in reliability monitoring methods.
 Analyze effectively various techniques to improve reliability of the system.

UNIT I RELIABILITY CONCEPTS

Reliability definition – Quality and Reliability– Reliability mathematics – Reliability functions – Hazard rate – Measures of Reliability – Design life –A priori and posteriori probabilities – Mortality of a component –Mortality curve – Useful life.

UNIT II LIFE DATA ANALYSIS

Data collection –Non Parametric methods: Ungrouped/Grouped, Complete/Censored data – Time to failure distributions: Exponential, Weibull – Probability plotting – Goodness of fit tests.

UNIT III RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT

Different configurations – Redundancy – k out of n system – Complex systems: RBD – Baye’s approach – Cut and tie sets – Fault Trees – Standby systems.

UNIT IV RELIABILITY MONITORING

Life testing methods: Failure terminated – Time terminated – Sequential Testing –Reliability growth monitoring – Reliability allocation – Software reliability-Human reliability.

UNIT V RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT

Analysis of downtime – Repair time distribution – System repair time – Maintainability prediction – Measures of maintainability – Inspection decisions –System Availability.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

CO1 : Understand the basic concepts of reliability engineering
CO2 : Effectively analyze various non parametric methods and failure distributions
CO3 : Conduct reliability assessment and failure analysis on any complex systems
CO4 : Effectively design and analyze reliability monitoring techniques
CO5 : Analyze various techniques to improve reliability of the system

REFERENCES:

1. Charles E. Ebeling, “An introduction to Reliability and Maintainability engineering”, TMH, 2000.
2. Roy Billington and Ronald N. Allan, “Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems”, Springer, 2007.