Robust Engineering Design-By-Reliability With Emphasis on Mechanical Components and Structural Reliability is the first book to provide an advanced methodology to achieve optimum designed-in reliability of products and components.

Robust Engineering Design-By-Reliability With Emphasis on Mechanical Components and Structural Reliability is clearly illustrated by worked, practical examples. Specific applications feature mechanical components and structural members widely used today.

Contents

1. Fifteen-Step Reliability Prediction and the "Robust Engineering Design by Reliability" Methodology
2. The Central Limit Theorem, and the Moments and the Monte Carlo Simulation Methods of Synthesizing Distributions
3. Methods of Determining the Failure Governing Stress Distribution
4. Methods of Determining the Failure Governing Strenght Distribution
5. Illustrated Methods of Calculating the Reliability of Components
6. Determination of the Designed-In Reliability Confidence Limit at a Specified Confidence Level
7. Unreliability and Reliability Determination by the Stress/Strength Distributions' Interference Approach
8. A Unified Look at Design Safety Factors, Safety Margins and Measures of Reliability
9. Comparative Accuracy of Evaluating Reliability Using Simpson's Rule, The Trapezoidal Rule and the Gauss-Legendre Method
10. Exact and Easy to Obtain Solutions for the Prediction of the Reliability of Mechanical Components and Structural Members
11. Numerical Solutions for the Prediction of the Reliability of Mechanical Components and Structural Members when Closed Form Solutions are not Available
12. Monte Carlo Simulation Method For Reliability Determination
13. Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis
14. Additional Applications of These Methodologies
15. Application Guidance for These Methodologies

Index

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