Reliability and Maintenance of Complex Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Stochastic Models of Reliability and Maintenance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Stochastic Models of Reliability and Maintenance: An Overview

      • Uwe Jensen

      Pages 3-36

   3. Fatigue Crack Growth

      • Erhan Çinlar

      Pages 37-52

   4. Predictive Modeling for Fatigue Crack Propagation via Linearizing Time Transformations

      • Panickos N. Palettas, Prem K. Goel

      Pages 53-69

   5. The Case for Probabilistic Physics of Failure

      • Max Mendel

      Pages 70-82

   6. Dynamic Modelling of Discrete Time Reliability Systems

      • Moshe Shaked, J. George Shanthikumar, Jose Benigno Valdez-Torres

      Pages 83-96

   7. Reliability Analysis via Corrections

      • Igor N. Kovalenko

      Pages 97-106

   8. Towards Rational Age-Based Failure Modelling

      • Menachem P. Berg

      Pages 107-113

3. Maintenance of Complex Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Maintenance Policies for Multicomponent Systems: An Overview

      • Frank Van der Duyn Schouten

      Pages 117-136

   3. Complex Systems in Random Environments

      • Süleyman Özekici

      Pages 137-157

   4. Optimal Replacement of Complex Devices

      • Süleyman Özekici

      Pages 158-169

   5. A Framework for Single-Parameter Maintenance Activities and its Use in Optimisation, Priority Setting and Combining

      • Rommert Dekker

      Pages 170-188

   6. Economics Oriented Maintenance Analysis and the Marginal Cost Approach

      • Menachem P. Berg

      Pages 189-205

   7. Availability Analysis of Monotone Systems

      • Terje Aven

      Pages 206-223

   8. Optimal Replacement of Monotone Repairable Systems

      • Terje Aven

      Pages 224-238

   9. How to Determine Maintenance Frequencies for Multi-Component Systems? A General Approach

      • Rommert Dekker, Hans Frenk, Ralph E. Wildeman

      Pages 239-280

   10. A Probabilistic Model for Heterogeneous Populations and Related Burn-in Design Problems

       • Fabio Spizzichino

       Pages 281-315

4. Stochastic Methods in Software Engineering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317

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Complex high-technology devices are in growing use in industry, service sectors, and everyday life. Their reliability and maintenance is of utmost importance in view of their cost and critical functions. This book focuses on this theme and is intended to serve as a graduate-level textbook and reference book for scientists and academics in the field. The chapters are grouped into five complementary parts that cover the most important aspects of reliability and maintenance: stochastic models of reliability and maintenance, decision models involving optimal replacement and repair, stochastic methods in software engineering, computational methods and simulation, and maintenance management systems. This wide range of topics provides the reader with a complete picture in a self-contained volume.

• Service
• Software
• Stochastic model
• Stochastic models
• complex system
• complex systems
• computer-aided design (CAD)
• management
• simulation

• Department of Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Bebek-İstanbul, Turkey

  Süleyman Özekici

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