Dependability of engineering systems. Modeling and evaluation
Renewal theory (60K05) Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10) Markov renewal processes, semi-Markov processes (60K15) Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02) Stochastic network models in operations research (90B15) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25)
This book is a detailed introduction into the theory of dependability of systems. The first chapter is titled ``nonrenewable two-state systems and used for introducing elementary probabilistic concepts of lifetime analysis. However, the used names of well known quantities are rather unusual. For example, the survival function is called reliability, the distribution function unreliability, the density function is introduced as time-specific failure frequency and the failure intensity as \textit{failure transition rate}. The major part of the first chapter is devoted to probability distributions usually applied for describing random life times. The second chapter deals with renewable two state systems and discusses state transition diagrams concentrating of investigating the renewal times. The third chapter generalizes the two-state systems by investigating Markov systems. The Kolmogorov equations are introduced and developed for systems with independent and dependent components. Distinguishing between up and down states enables the definition of system availability, reliability and other dependability indices including steady-state concepts with some typical applications. The next chapter describes more complex systems by networks, where system failure is described by an interruption of the connection between the source and the sink, i.e., the terminal node. Some elementary network structures are analysed by network techniques like for instance minimal cuts. The fifth chapter is headed ``Event Inspection Methods and includes failure mode, effects and critically analysis, fault tree analysis and failure event set enumeration. Exploiting the dependability model of a system yields methods described in the sixth chapter for predicting system behavior in the near future. After a short discourse on simulation techniques, the important problem of system optimization is briefly mentioned together with an introduction to fuzzy logic methods, which is also used in the last chapter for assessing the underlying uncertainty in the dependability evaluation.
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