Indicative contents
The following topics will be covered, with approximately equal amounts of time spent on each:
- Concept of safety, risk and reliability; risk analysis; As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) criteria, principles and best practice.
- Top-down approach in risk and reliability analysis.
- Bottom-up approach in risk and reliability analysis.
- Probabilistic risk and reliability analysis techniques (PRA).
- Non-probabilistic risk and reliability analysis techniques (non-PRA).
- Application of AI and approximate logic approaches in risk and reliability analysis.
- Workshop: work in groups to apply one of risk and reliability analysis techniques to analyse an automotive component such as engine system, braking system, electrical system, suspension system, exhaust system etc.
Module Resources
- Essential reading
- Course notes
- Recommended Reading
- K.K. Aggarwal, Reliability Engineering, Springer, 2007.
- R.C.Mishra, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, New Age
Publishers, 2006
- E. G. Frankel, Systems Reliability and Risk Analysis, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1998.
- T.A. Cruse, Reliability Based Mechanical Design, Marcel
Dekker, 1997
- S. Srinath, Reliability Engineering, East West Publishers,
2002
- Journals
- J. of Safety & Reliability Engineering
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