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Course Course Name L-T-P-Credits Year of

code Introduction
BM464 RELIABILITY ENGINEERING 3-0-0-3 2016

Prerequisite : Nil
Course Objectives
 To understand the basic concepts of quality, reliability.
 To analyze failure data
 To compute measures of reliability of products and systems.
 To study about the techniques of reliability improvement.

Syllabus
Introduction to reliability concepts, Hazard Models, System Reliability, Fault Tree Analysis,
Reliability improvement methods, Reliability Allocation.

Expected Outcome
 Students will be able to design systems to meet the required demands in reliability.

Reference Books:
1. L.S.Srinath, “Reliability Engineering”, Affiliated East-West Press Ltd., 1985
2. E. Balaguruswamy, “Reliability Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co.,
1984
3. Charles E. Ebling, “Reliability & Maintainability Engg.”, Tata McGraw Hill
Publishing Co., 1997
4. Alessandro Birolini “Reliability Engineering Theory and Practice”, Springer, 2007.
5. Lewis, E., “Introduction to Reliability Engineering”, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Course Plan
Sem.
Module Contents Hours Exam
Marks
I Definition of reliability – key elements; failure analysis – 3 15%
failure density – failure rate – probability of failure - bathtub
curve
Basic reliability equations 2
Reliability in terms of – failure rate – failure density - relation 2
between reliability, failure density and hazard rate - Mean time
to failure (MTTF) – Integral equation of MTTF in terms of
reliability.

II Hazard models – constant hazard model - linearly increasing 3 15%


hazard model
Expressions for reliability, failure density, and probability of 4
failure of these models – problems

FIRST INTERNAL EXAM


III System reliability - reliability block diagrams (RBD) - 3 15%S
distinction between physical configuration and logical
configuration
Components connected in series – components connected in 4
parallel – mixed configuration – problems

IV Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) - Symbols used in FTA 3 15%


Fault Tree Construction - Estimation of system reliability from 4
Fault tree

SECOND INTERNAL EXAM


V Reliability improvement methods – Redundancy – unit 4 20%
redundancies – element redundancies - problems
Simplification of design – parts derating – operating 3
environment; Cost of reliability – factors to be considered for
optimizing the reliability cost.

VI Reliability allocation - basic concepts 2 20%


Proportional to uniform failure rate method of reliability 5
allocation (other methods need not be introduced)

END SEMESTER EXAM

QUESTION PAPER PATTERN:

Maximum Marks: 100 Exam Duration: 3 Hours


There shall be three parts for the question paper.
Part A includes Modules 1 & 2 and shall have three questions of fifteen marks out of which
two are to be answered. There can be subdivisions, limited to a maximum of 4, in each
question.
Part B includes Modules 3 & 4 and shall have three questions of fifteen marks out of which
two are to be answered. There can be subdivisions, limited to a maximum of 4, in each
question.
Part C includes Modules 5 & 6 and shall have three questions of twenty marks out of which
two are to be answered. There can be subdivisions, limited to a maximum of 4, in each
question.
Note: Each part shall have questions uniformly covering both the modules in it.

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