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.