Overview
- The more than 60 contributors are drawn from industrial and academic backgrounds all over the world
- Provides a broad mix of theoretical and applied reliability, with examples reflecting the growing importance of the subject to the automotive, public transport, electronics, telecommunications, software and other industries. This is gaining increased public awareness and therefore importance because of design flaws in existing systems such as railways and concerns over other safety-critical systems such as those used for the disposal of hazardous wastes. Reliability is now a key concern at the design stage of most engineering projects.
- Reliability has a wide field of application within many fields of engineering: civil, mechanical, electronic, electrical and manufacturing.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Front Matter
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System Reliability and Optimization
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Front Matter
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Software Reliability
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Keywords
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Reviews
From the reviews:
[T]here are some new topics included in the Handbook which make it a valuable addition to the literature and the reviewer would like to recommend the Handbook to practitioners and serious minded students and teachers." (Krisnha B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 3, (3), 2007)
"Organised into 35 chapters written by 45 experts in the relevant fields, this handbook gives a very broad overview into important areas within reliability. Each chapter describes a number of different methods in use and many conclude with a discussion of open problems. All contain a long list of references to the scientific literature. … this book is well worth getting as a reference volume in your library, and provides an excellent way of getting new researchers up to speed! (Tim Bedford, ESRA Newsletter, January, 2005)
"This Handbook of Reliability Engineering, altogether 35 chapters, aims to provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art reference volume that covers both fundamental and theoretical work in the areas of reliability … . The handbook’s cross-disciplinary scope ensures that it serves as an indispensable tool for researchers in industrial, electrical, electronics, computer, civil, mechanical and systems engineering. … they all will be forced to take into account the excellent contributions appearing in this Handbook of Reliability Engineering." (Current Engineering Practice – online, Vol. 47, 2004/2005)
"The book … contains all the latest developments in concepts and the state-of-the-art techniques about reliability … . This book has thirty-five well-written excellent chapters by sixty leading authorities … . A reader, whether new to reliability concepts and techniques or a reasonably well-versed expert in reliability topics, should consider having this thought provoking book … . All reliabilists, professional engineers, medical and health researchers, graduate students andprofessors, industrial statisticians, numerical mathematicians, and software engineers would benefit greatly by reading … this book." (Ramalingam Shanmugam, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 75 (6), 2005)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Reliability Engineering
Editors: Hoang Pham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b97414
Publisher: Springer London
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-453-6Published: 17 April 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-3939-3Published: 23 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-85233-841-1Published: 12 April 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 663
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 1539 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Optimization, Software Engineering, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences