Reliability Engineering detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IEM students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Industrial Engineering & Management 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IEM 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to IEM Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of reliability engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
RELIABILITY CONCEPT 9
Reliability definition -, Reliability parameters- f(t), F(t,) and R(t) functions- Measures of
central tendency Bathbub curve – A priori and posterior probabilities of failure – Component mortality – Useful life.
Unit II
LIFE DATA ANALYSIS 9
Data classification – Non parametric methods: Ungrouped, Grouped, Complete, Censored data – Time to failure distributions – Survival graphs – Probability plotting: Exponential, Weibull – Goodness of fit tests – -Bartlett’s test, KS test, chi-square test.
Unit III
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Unit IV
RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT 9
Reliability testing: Failure terminated test – Time terminated test – Upper and lower MTBFs -Sequential Testing – Reliability growth monitoring – Reliability allocation.
Unit V
RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT 9
Analysis of downtime – Repair time distribution – Maintainability prediction – Measures of maintainability – Availability definitions – System Availability – Replacement decisions -Economic life.
Course Outcomes:
- Understand the basic concepts of reliability engineering
- Effectively analyze various non parametric methods and failure distributions
- Conduct reliability assessment and failure analysis on any complex systems
- Effectively design and analyze reliability monitoring techniques
- Analyze various techniques to improve reliability of the system
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Roy Billington and Ronald N. Allan, “Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems”, Springer, 2007
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