MENG 424 - Reliability Engineering

Probability concept and probability distribution functions. Probability distributions for describing failures. Failure data. Reliability of simple system. Reliability and availability of system with repair. Redundancy. Fault tree and event tree analysis. Risk concept and risk assessment.

Course Outline

Project

Lecture Notes

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

MATLAB & Simulink Models

Reliability Block Diagram: Series, Series Parallel Redundancy

Fault Tree Analysis: AND Gate OR Gate

MATLAB - Designing for Reliability and Robustness

MATLAB - Analyzing Survival or Reliability Data

MATLAB - Probabilistic failure-time model for estimating remaining useful life

MATLAB - Industrial Statistics

Reliasoft - Software

Reliability Centered Maintenance and Root Cause Analysis

Please click on the link to Join : MICROSOFT TEAM

Project: Submission due on 3 June 2022

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Useful Links

Reliability Analytics Toolkit

NASA Kennedy Space Center Reliability

ISO 31000 Risk Management

NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods

IEEE Reliability Society

American Soceity of Quality

Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Microelectronics Reliability

ASQ Quality Tools

Institute of Quality and Reliability

Reliability of Materials

Handbooks and Standards Related to Reliability

Research

Scopus Tutorial: How to conduct a basic search

Technical Report Writing

Referencing

Improves traceability
Distinguishes your own contribution
Demonstrates the depth of reading
Supports claims made in the text.
Prevents accusations of plagiarism
Motivates the readers.
Improves the presentation of your work.
Academic practice

What to Cite?

The work & ideas of other researchers.
The sources you used to construct your own arguments
Ideas taken from others that are demonstrated inside tables.
All figures and tables need Numbers, Titles. They may also need Citations next to the title.
Slides that you produce for giving a presentation need to be cited as well.
Any image, figure, table, data, equation, model etc taken from another source must be cited.