mt51032 applied reliability engineering

Spring 2009 Wed & Thu 5.30 -7.25 pm, MT Annexe 1^st Floor		Instructor: B. Bhattacharya
Office: CE 304		Email: baidurya@iitkgp.ac.in
TA: Puneet Patra, Himanshu Agrawal and Y. Raghuvanshi
Required text	Introduction to Reliability Engineering, 2^nd Ed., Lewis, Wiley, 1996 (ISBN 0471018333)
Recommended reading:	Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Engineering Systems, Stewart and Melchers, Chapman and Hall 1997 (ISBN 0412805707) Probability Concepts in Engineering Planning and Design, Vol. I, A. H-S Ang and W. H. Tang, Wiley, 1975

Syllabus

Week	Days	Topics
1	Dec 31- Jan 1	Introduction and overview
2	Jan 7 -8*	Review of basic probability: combinatorial probability, conditional probability, independence, Bayes theorem
3	Jan 14 -15	Review: random variables, probability laws, common probability distributions – origins and interrelations
4	Jan 21 – 22	Random number generation – Monte Carlo simulation
5	Jan 28 – 29	Functions of random variables; Joint probability distribution: dependence, conditional distributions, covariance; Joint Normal distribution
6	Feb 4 – 5	Joint distribution (contd.) Class Test 1
7	Feb 11 – 12	Reliability – historical development, applications, different measures of reliability; Component reliability - time to failure
8	Feb 18 – 19	Component reliability (contd.) – hazard functions, failure, limit states, computation of failure probability
9	Feb 25* – 26*	Midterm Week
10	Mar 4 – 5	Reliability-based maintenance
11	Mar 11 – 12	System reliability - representation of failure, series and parallel systems, redundancy, fault trees
12	Mar 18 – 19	System reliability (contd.)
13	Mar 25 – 26	Probability-based design Reliability-based design codes
14	Apr 1 – 2	Class Test 2 Probability-based acceptance criteria, consequence of failure
15	Apr 8 – 9	Concepts of risk, utility
16	Apr 15 – 17	Target reliability
17	Apr 20 – 28	Final Week

*No classes