ISBN: 9788120335936    Publisher: Phi Learning Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 380        Language: English

It describes the various techniques available for reliability analysis and prediction and explains the statistical methods necessary for reliability modelling, analysis and estimation. The text also discusses in detail the concepts of life testing, its classification and methodologies as well as accelerated life tests, the methodologies and models of stress related failure rates evaluation, and data analysis. Besides, it elaborates on the principles, methods and equipment of highly accelerated life testing and highly accelerated stress screening. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion on the parametric as well as non-parametric methods generally used for reliability estimation, and the recent developments in life testing of engineering components.
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V.N.A. Naikan (Ph.D., Reliability Engineering) is Associate Professor, Reliability Engineering Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Earlier, he worked with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Trivandrum (Kerala), IIM Ahmedabad, the China University of Hong Kong, and Union Carbide (India). Dr. Naikan has published/presented about 60 technical papers in international journals and conferences and contributed a chapter on statistical process control (SPC) in the Handbook on Performability Engineering (Springer, 2008). He has organized many short-term courses in reliability engineering for working professionals and was the Technical Chair of the first, the second, and the third International Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering (INCRESE), held in 2005, 2006, and 2007, respectively.
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