RELIABILITY IN MACHINE DESIGN

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This course provides design parameters as random variables and uses reliability as a measurement of component safe status to replace the traditional factor of safety in mechanical design. The course covers the following topics: fundamentals of probability theory; typical types of distributions; reliability computational methods; reliability calculation of a component under static and cyclic loads; component dimension design with required reliability; and introduction to system reliability. Simulation tools are used for reliability calculations and dimension design with required reliability. (3 credits)