Mathematics for reliability engineering. Modern concepts and applications (Q2232658)

The book groups together various topics of current interest in the field of reliability theory. The reader is invited to follow 11 independent presentations, with different authors. The original theoretical concepts, which are developed in each of the book's 11 chapters, are convincingly exploited in engineering applications, with illustrative numerical examples. The following topics are covered: \begin{itemize} \item[--] a residual resilience model based on the importance measure for studying the recovery sequence of the failed components of a network after a disaster; \item[--] a mixed cascading failures model that takes into account the combined impacts of network load dynamics and network dependency; \item[--] an innovative mathematical scheme for describing and predicting the time evolution of physical systems; \item[--] reliability structures with two common failure criteria and a single change point; \item[--] a new methodology to evaluate the survivability and invulnerability at both the disk level and the cloud-RAID system level; \item[--] multistate systems with common bus performance sharing considering performance excess; \item[--] a performance algorithm for finding minimal cut-sets in arbitrary networks; \item[--] switching-algebraic symbolic analysis of the reliability of non-repairable multistate systems; \item[--] a system reliability evaluation method with failure mechanism tree considering physical dependency as a competition; \item[--] an innovative large-scale nonlinear hybrid dynamic model of survival species; \item[--] a Bayesian methodology for planning systems-level zero-failure reliability demonstration tests for multicomponent systems. \end{itemize} We note the high quality of these innovative studies. In this way, the valuable and deep interaction between reliability engineering and mathematics is very well illustrated.