Engineering Reliability

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Introduces concepts and applications of engineering reliability. Presents how to formulate a reliability question to solve engineering problems of interest; compute first- and second-order estimates of failure probabilities of engineered systems; compute sensitivities of failure probabilities to assumed parameter values; measure the relative importance of the random variables associated with a system; identify the relative advantages and disadvantages of various analytical reliability methods as well as Monte Carlo simulation; update reliability estimates based on new observational data; and compute system reliability for series and parallel systems.