Reliability and Safety Engineering

Reliability and safety are core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineering systems. Reliability and Safety Engineering presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations.

The authors present reliability terminology in various engineering fields, viz., electronics engineering, software engineering, mechanical engineering, structural engineering and power systems engineering. The book describes the latest applications in the area of probabilistic safety assessment, such as technical specification optimization, risk monitoring and risk informed in-service inspection. Reliability and safety studies must, inevitably, deal with uncertainty, so the book includes uncertainty propagation methods: Monte Carlo simulation, fuzzy arithmetic, Dempster-Shafer theory and probability bounds. Reliability and Safety Engineering also highlights advances in system reliability and safety assessment including dynamic system modeling and uncertainty management. Case studies from typical nuclear power plants as well as from structural, software and electronic systems are also discussed.

Reliability and Safety Engineering combines discussions of theexisting literature on basic concepts and applications with state-of-the-art methods used in reliability and risk assessment of engineering systems. It is designed to assist practicing engineers, students and researchers in the areas of reliability engineering and risk analysis.

Introduction.- Basic Reliability Mathematics.- System Reliability Modeling.- Reliability of Complex Systems.- Electronic System Reliability.- Software Reliability.- Mechanical Reliability.- Structural Reliability.- Maintenance of Large Engineering Systems.- Probabilistic Safety Assessment.- Dynamic Probabilistic Safety Assessment.- Applications of PSA.- Uncertainty Analysis in Reliability/Safety Assessment.- Advanced Methods in Uncertainty Management.

Ajit K. Verma is a Professor (Technical Safety), ATØM, Stord/Haugesund University College, Haugesund, Norway (since March 2012) and has been a Professor (since Feb 2001) and Senior (HAG) scale Professor (since Jan 2013) with the Department ofElectrical Engineering at IIT Bombay with a research focus in Reliability and Safety Engineering( He has been on leave from IIT Bombay since March 2012). He was the Director of the International Institute of Information Technology Pune, on lien from IIT Bombay, from Aug 2009-Sep 2010. He has supervised/co-supervised 37 PhDs(IIT Bombay and Lulea Technical University, Sweden) and 95 Masters theses(IIT Bombay; LJMU,UK; WMG,Warwick University,UK) in the area of Electronics System reliability, Software Reliability, Reliable Computing, Power Systems Reliability (PSR), Reliability Centred  Maintenance (RCM) and Probabilistic Safety/Risk Assessment (PSA) and Plant Engineering. He is the Springer Book Series Editor of Reliable & Sustainable Electric Power and Energy Systems Management and jointly edited(with Prof.Roy Billinton and Prof.Rajesh Karki) books titled 1.Reliability and Risk Evaluation of Wind Integrated Power Systems 2. Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Smart Power Systems andis also an author of books titled Fuzzy Reliability Engineering-Concepts and Applications (Narosa), Optimal Maintenance of Large Engineeringinitial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Systems(Narosa), Reliability and Safety Engineering (Springer), Dependability of Networked Computer Based Systems (Springer),Risk Management of Non-Renewable Energy Systems(Springer). He has over 250 publications in various journals (125 papers) and conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE and a life fellowof IETE. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of OPSEARCH published by Springer(Jan 2008-Jan 2011) as well as the Founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management(IJSAEM) published by Springer and an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. He has been on the editorial board of international journals like Quality Assurance (Associate Editor), International Journal of Automation & Computing(Springer) (Associate Editor), Communications in Dependabilityand Quality Management, International Journal of Performability Engineering, International Journal of Reliability, Quality andSafety Engineering (World Scientific), International Journal of Quality, Statistics, andReliability (Hindawi) and on the advisory board of OPSEARCH(published by Springer) and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence(Inderscience). He has served as a Guest Editor of Special Issueof IETE Technical Review on Quality Management in Electronics, Telecommunication& Information Technology, 2001 and as a Guest Editor of Special Issue of International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (World Scientific) Dec 2004, June 2006, April 2008, Dec 2009 & June 2010. He hasbeen a Guest Editor of Special Issue of DQM Communications, 2006, 2007 & 2009 and Special Issue on ‘Dependability in computing systems’ of International Journal ofPerformability Engineering, 2006. He was a Guest Editor of Special Issue on ‘Reliable Computing’ of International Journal of Automation and Computing (Oct 2007), May 2010, IJSAEM (June 2010) (with Prof Roy Billintonand Prof RajeshKarki) and IJSAEM (March 2011) ( with Prof Lotfi Zadeh and Prof Ashok Deshpande) and IEEE Transactions on Reliability, March 2011 . He is an Editor of ` Current Trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety- An Industry Perspective` being published by Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Series. 

Prof. A. Srividya is a Professor II at Stord/Haugesund University College(Aug 2014-July 2015). She was a Guest Professor from August 2012 till July 2014 at Stord/Haugesund University College, Haugesund,Norway prior to which she worked with IIT Bombay since 1988 where she is a Professor in Civil Engineering with research focus in the areas of Reliability & Safety Engineering and Quality Management. She has supervised/co-supervised 28 PhD’s and 50 Masters thesis in the area of Structural Reliability, Reliability Based Optimisation, Simulation Studies for Reliability Estimation, Quality Benchmarking Studies for Service Industries, Quality Systems and Accelerated Life Testing. She has executed various research projects to promote industry interface and has been course co-ordinator for industry CEPs like Reliability Engineering and Quality Management and Six Sigma for IT industries. She has jointly authored books titled “Fuzzy Reliability Engineering-Concepts and Applications”(Narosa) and ‘Optimal Maintenance of Large Engineering Systems’(Narosa), ‘Reliability and Safety Engineering’(Springer), ‘Dependability of Networked Computer based Systems’(Springer)and `Risk Management of Non-Renewable Energy Systems’ (Springer). She has 205 pub