Reliability Data Banks
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RELIABILITY DATA BANKS
Edited by
A. G. CANNON and
A. BENDELL
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© 1991 ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS LTD Chapter 7 © 1991 US Government Chapter 10 © 1991 IAEA British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Reliability data banks 1. Engineering equipment. Reliability. I. Cannon, A. G. II. Bendell, A. 025.0662000452
Data banks.
ISBN 1-85166-513-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reliability data banks / edited by A. G. Cannon and A. Bendel!. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-85166-513-7 1. Reliability (Engineeringt-Data bases. I. Cannon, A. G. II. Bendell, A. TA169.R437 1991 620'.00452'0285574-dc20 90-42119 CIP
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Contents
List of Contributors
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1 RELIABILITY (A. Bendell) . 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 What is Reliability? Why Want Reliability? Principles of Achieving Reliability 1.3 Quantifying Reliability . 1.4 The Methods of Systems Reliability Synthesis 1.5 Need for Reliability Data
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2 PRINCIPLES OF RELIABILITY DATA BASES (A. Bendell) 2.1 Purposes 2.2 Construction. 2.3 Data Acquisition . 2.4 Physical Implementation 2.5 Development and Operation
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3 ANALYSIS METHODOLOGIES (A. Bendell) 3.1 Restrictions Owing to Data Base Assumptions 3.2 Constant Fault-Rate or Failure-Rate Methods 3.3 Non-Constant Fault-Rate Methods; The Weibull Distribution 3.3.1 Probability Plotting . 3.3.2 Hazard Plotting . 3.4 More General Data Structures
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4 SOME ACHIEVEMENTS DUE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DATA BANKS (A. G. Cannon) 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 The Nuclear Industry . v
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Aircraft Industry . Electronics Industry Chemical Industry Data Computational Considerations Data Needs or Requirements Other Factors Worthy of Consideration Staffing . 4.10.1 Factors to be Investigated.
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