Reliability Engineering detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering (Industrial) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Industrial 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 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Industrial 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Industrial Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of reliability engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
RELIABILITY CONCEPT
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
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Industrial Engineering 5th Sem, visit Industrial 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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