ABSTRACT
This chapter presents eight methods to perform reliability analysis of engineering systems. The methods are failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), Markov method, network reduction approach, decomposition method, delta-star method, probability tree analysis, and binomial method.
At appropriate places, the chapter contains examples along with their solutions, and ten problems are given at the end of the chapter to test the reader’s comprehension in the area. Finally, the sources of most of the material presented in the chapter are given in the reference section. They will be useful to readers if they desire to delve more deeply into a specific area.
