Design Reliability: Fundamentals and Applications [Hardcover]

As engineering systems become more and more complex, industry has recognized the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Despite its efforts, however, industry continues to lose billions of dollars each year because of unexpected system failures. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important for designers and engineers to have a solid grounding in reliability engineering and keep abreast of new developments and research results.Industry recognizes the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Therefore, it is extremely important for designers and engineers to have a solid grounding in reliability engineering and keep abreast of developments and research results. Design Reliability: Fundamentals and Applications provides the background professionals need to incorporate reliability concepts, tools, and techniques into their system planning and designs. It offers outstanding coverage of classical reliability concepts and their extension to applications in mechanical engineering, computer systems, robots, and medical devices.US