Reliability and Availability Engineering: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications

Do you need to know what technique to use to evaluate the reliability of an engineered system? This self-contained guide provides comprehensive coverage of all the analytical and modeling techniques currently in use, from classical non-state and state space approaches, to newer and more advanced methods such as binary decision diagrams, dynamic fault trees, Bayesian belief networks, stochastic Petri nets, non-homogeneous Markov chains, semi-Markov processes, and phase type expansions. Readers will quickly understand the relative pros and cons of each technique, as well as how to combine different models together to address complex, real-world modeling scenarios. Numerous examples, case studies and problems provided throughout help readers put knowledge into practice, and a solutions manual and Powerpoint slides for instructors accompany the book online. This is the ideal self-study guide for students, researchers and practitioners in engineering and computer science.

您需要知道如何評估工程系統的可靠性所需的技術嗎？這本自成一體的指南全面介紹了目前使用的所有分析和建模技術，從傳統的非狀態和狀態空間方法，到較新且更先進的方法，如二進制決策圖、動態故障樹、貝葉斯信念網絡、隨機Petri網絡、非齊次馬可夫鏈、半馬可夫過程和相位類型擴展。讀者將迅速了解每種技術的優缺點，以及如何結合不同模型來應對複雜的現實建模場景。書中提供了大量的例子、案例研究和問題，幫助讀者將知識應用於實踐，並且附帶了解答手冊和教師用的Powerpoint幻燈片。這是工程和計算機科學領域的學生、研究人員和從業人員的理想自學指南。