1 Reliability Engineering Perspective and Fundamentals
1.1 Why Study Reliability?
Structures, systems, and components designs are not perfect. While a naïve view would insist that it is technologically possible to engineer a perfect system and design out all failures, unfortunately, this view is idealistic, impractical, and economically infeasible. It is an essential job of engineers to prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from failures. Reliability engineering helps ensure robust design, product reliability, and economic competitiveness. Beyond this, reliability engineering helps engineers achieve their duty to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public, workers, and the environment. Reliability ...
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