Preface Course Software 1 Introduction 1.1 The Study of Reliability and Maintainability 1.2 Concepts.Terms,and Definitions 1.3 Applications 1.4 A BriefHistory 1.5 Scope of the Tex tAppendix lA A Probability Primer PARTl Basic Reliability Models 2 The Failure Distribution 2.1 The Reliability Function 2.2 Mean Time to Failure 2.3 Hazard Rate Function 2.4 Bathtub Curve 2.5 Conditional Reliability 2.6 Summary 3 Constant Failure Rate Model 3.1 The Exponential Reliability Function 3.2 Failure Modes 3.3 Applications 3.4 The Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution 3.5 Poisson Process 3.6 Redundancy and the CFR Model Exercises 4 Time-Dependent Failure Models 4.1 The Weibull Distribution 4.2 The Normal Distribution 4.3 The Lognormal Distribution 5 Reliability of Systems 5.1 Serial Configuration 5.2 Parallel Configuration 5.3 Combined Series-Parallel Systems 5.4 System Structure Function, Minimal Cuts, 5.5 Common-Mode Failures …… PART 2 The Analysis of Failure Data PART 3 Application References Appendix Index