Failure models, failure rate, and equipment survival laws. Models for failure rate. Reliability testing, including censored and accelerated tests. Block diagrams. Structure function. Reliability function. Series, parallel, and voting systems. More complex arrangements: pivotal decomposition. Redundancy. Minimal cuts and minimal paths. Reliability attributes: availability, maintainability, MTTF, and MTBF. System testing and maintenance. Systems with repairable components. Reliability in system design and in operating systems. Reliability of safety systems. Common-cause failures and human errors. Markovian and non-Markovian models for handling interactions between events. Structural reliability. Application of stochastic point processes to the reliability of repairable systems.

Credits: 3.0 (three)