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1 Alessandro Birolini Re ia i it En ineerin Theory and Practice Fifth edition With 140 Figures, 60 Tables, 120 Examples, and 50 Problems ~ Springer

2 Contents 1 Basic Concepts, Quality and Reliability Assurance of Complex Equipment & Systems Introduction Basic Concepts Reliability Failure Failure Rate Maintenance, Maintainability Logistic Support Availability Safety, Risk, and Risk Acceptance Quality Cost and System Effectiveness lO Product Liability Historical Development Basic Tasks & Rules for Quality & Reliability Assurance of Complex Equip. & Systems Quality and Reliability Assurance Tasks Basic Quality and Reliability Assurance Rules Elements of a Quality Assurance System Motivation and Training Reliability Analysis During the Design Phase (Nonrepair-able Items up to System Failure) Introduction Predicted Reliability of Equipment and Systems with Simple Structure Required Function Reliability Block Diagram Operating Conditions at Component Level, Stress Factors Failure Rate of Electronic Components Reliability of One-Item Structure Reliability of Series-Parallel Structures Systems without Redundancy Concept of Redundancy Parallel Models Series - Parallel Structures Majority Redundancy Part Count Method Reliability of Systems with Complex Structure Key Item Method Bridge Structure Rei. Block Diagram in which Elements Appear More than Once Successful Path Method State Space Method Boolean Function Method Parallel Models with Constant Failure Rates and Load Sharing 61

3 XII Contents Elements with more than one Failure Mechanism or one Failure Mode Basic Considerations on Fault Tolerant Structures 2.4 Reliability Allocation. 2.5 Mechanical Reliability, Drift Failures 2.6 Failure Mode Analysis Reliability Aspects in Design Reviews Qualification Tests for Components and Assemblies 3.1 Basic Selection Criteria for Electronic Components Environment Performance Parameters Technology Manufacturing Quality Long-Term Behavior of Performance Parameters Reliability Qualification Tests for Complex Electronic Components Electrical Test of Complex ICs Characterization of Complex Ies Environmental and Special Tests of Complex lcs Reliability Tests Failure Modes, Failure Mechanisms, and Failure Analysis of Electronic Components Failure Modes of Electronic Components Failure Mechanisms of Electronic Components Failure Analysis of Electronic Components Examples ofvlsi Production-Related Reliability Problems 3.4 Qualification Tests for Electronic Assemblies \ 8\ Q Maintainability Analysis 4.1 Maintenance, Maintainability 4.2 Maintenance Concept Fault Recognition and Isolation Equipment and System Partitioning User Documentation Training of Operating and Maintenance Personnel User Logistic Support Maintainability Aspects in Design Reviews 4.4 Predicted Maintainability Calculation of MTTRs Calculation of MTTPM S 4.5 Basic Models for Spare Parts Provisioning Centralized Logistic Support, Nonrepairable Spare Parts Decentralized Logistic Support, Nonrepairable Spare Parts Repairable Spare Parts Repair strategies Cost Considerations Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality 5.1 Design Guidelines for Reliability Derating lis \21 \ \

4 Contents XIII Cooling Moisture Electromagnetic Compatibility, ESD Protection Components and Assemblies Component Selection Component Use PCB and Assembly Design PCB and Assembly Manufacturing Storage and Transportation Particular Guidelines for Ie Design and Manufacturing Design Guidelines for Maintainability General Guidelines Testability Accessibility, Exchangeability Operation, Adjustment Design Guidelines for Software Quality Guidelines for Software Defect Prevention Configuration Management Guidelines for Software Testing Software Quality Growth Models Reliability and Availability of Repairable Systems Introduction and General Assumptions One-Item Structure One-Item Structure New at Time t = Reliability Function Point Availability Average Availability Interval Reliability Special Kinds of Availability One-Item Structure New at Time t = 0 and with Constant Failure Rate A One-Item Structure with Arbitrary Initial Conditions at Time t = Asymptotic Behavior Steady-State Behavior Systems without Redundancy Series Structure with Constant Failure and Repair Rates Series Structure with Constant Failure and Arbitrary Repair Rates Series Structure with Arbitrary Failure and Repair Rates l-out-of-2 Redundancy out-of-2 Redundancy with ConstantFailure and Repair Rates l-out-of-2 Redundancy with Constant Failure and Arbitrary Repair Rates l-out-of-l Red. with Const. Failure Rate in Res. State and Arbitr. Repair Rates k-out-of-n Redundancy k-out-of-n Warm Redundancy with Constant Failure and Repair Rates k-out-of-n Active Redundancy with Const. Failure and Arbitrary Repair Rates Simple Series-Parallel Structures Approximate Expressions for Large Series - Parallel Structures Introduction Application to a Practical Example

5 XIV Contents 6.8 Systems with Complex Structure General Considerations Preventive Maintenance Imperfect Switching Incomplete Coverage Elements with more than two States or one Failure Mode Fault Tolerant Reconfigurable Systems Ideal Case Time Censored Reconfiguration (Phased-Mission Systems) Failure Censored Reconfiguration With Reward and Frequency I Duration Aspects Systems with Common Cause Failures General Procedure for Modeling Complex Systems Alternative Investigation Methods Petri Nets Dynamic Fault Trees Computer-Aided Reliability and Availability Computation Numerical Solution of Equations for Reliability and Availability Monte Carlo Simulations Statistical Quality Control and Reliability Tests Statistical Quality Control Estimation of a Defective Probability p Simple Two-sided Sampling Plans for Demonstration of a Def. Probability p Simple Two-sided Sampling Plans Sequential Tests One-sided Sampling Plans for the Demonstration of a Def. Probability p Statistical Reliability Tests Reliability & Availability Estimation & Demon. for the case of a given Mission, Availability Estimation & Demonstration for Continuous Operation (steady-state) Availability Estimation Availability Demonstration Further Availability Evaluation Methods for Continuous Operation Estimation and Demonstration of a Constant Failure Rate A (or of MTBF= 1/A) Estimation of a Constant Failure Rate A Simple Two-sided Test for the Demonstration of A Simple One-sided Test for the Demonstration of A Statistical Maintainability Tests Estimation of an MTTR Demonstration of an M7TR Accelerated Testing Goodness-of-fit Tests Kolmogorov-Smimov Test Chi-square Test Statistical Analysis of General Reliability Data General considerations Tests for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes Trend Tests Tests of a HPP versus a NHPP with increasing intensity Tests of a HPP versus a NHPP with decreasing intensity. 326

6 Contents XV Heuristic Tests to distinguish between HPP and Gen. Monotonic Trend Reliability Growth Quality & Reliability Assurance During the Production Phase (Basic Considerations) Basic Activities Testing and Screening of Electronic Components Testing of Electronic Components Screening of Electronic Components Testing and Screening of Electronic Assemblies ,4 Test and Screening Strategies, Economic Aspects Basic Considerations Quality Cost Optimization at Incoming Inspection Level ,4.3 Procedure (Q handle first deliveries Annexes Al Terms and Definitions A2 Quality and Reliability Standards. A2.1 Introduction A2.2 Requirements in the Industrial Field A2.3 Requirements in the Aerospace, Defense, and Nuclear Fields A3 Definition and Realization of Quality and Reliability Requirements A3.1 Definition ofquality and Reliability Requirements A3.2 Realization of Quality and Reliability Requirements for Complex Equip. & Systems. 371 A3.3 Elements of a Quality and Reliability Assurance Program. 376 A3.3.1 Project Organization, Planning, and Scheduling.376 A3.3.2 Quality and Reliability Requirements A3.3.3 Reliability and Safety Analysis A3.3.4 Selection and Qualification of Components, Materials & Manuf. Processes. 378 A3.3.5 Configuration Management. 378 A3.3.6 Quality Tests A3.3.7 Quality Data Reporting System.380 A4 Checklists for Design Reviews.. A4.1 System Design Review... A4.2 Preliminary Design Reviews. A4.3 Critical Design Review (System Level) AS A6 Requirements for Quality Data Reporting Systems. Basic Probability Theory A6.1 Field of Events.. A6.2 Concept of Probability A6.3 Conditional Probability, Independence A6,4 Fundamental Rules of Probability Theory. A6,4.1 Addition Theorem for Mutually Exclusive Events A6,4.2 Multiplication Theorem for Two Independent Events A6,4.3 Multiplication Theorem for Arbitrary Events

7 XVI Contents A6.4.4 Addition Theorem for Arbitrary Events. 399 A6.4.5 Theorem of Total Probability A6.5 Random Variables. Distribution Functions.. 40 I A6.6 Numerical Parameters of Random Variables.406 A6.6.1 Expected Value (Mean) A6.6.2 Variance A6.6.3 Modal Value, Quantile, Median A6.7 Multidimensional Random Variables, Conditional Distributions.412 A6.8 Numerical Parameters of Random Vectors A6.8.1 Covariance Matrix, Correlation Coefficient A6.8.2 Further Properties of Expected Value and Variance.416 A6.9 Distribution of the Sum of Indep. Positive Random Variables and of "rnin- "max. 416 A6.1O Distribution Functions used in Reliability Analysis.419 A6.1O.1 Exponential Distribution A6.1O.2 Weibull Distribution A6.1O.3 Gamma Distribution, Erlangian Distribution, and X 2 -Distribution. 422 A6.lOo4 Normal Distribution.424 A Lognormal Distribution.425 A6.l0.6 Uniform Distribution.427 A6.1O.7 Binomial Distribution..427 A Poisson Distribution. 429 A Geometric Distribution.431 A Hypergeometric Distribution.432 A6.11 Limit Theorems A Law of Large Numbers.433 A Central Limit Theorem. 434 A7 Basic Stochastic-Processes Theory. 438 A7.1 Introduction A7.2 Renewal Processes A7.2.1 Renewal Function, Renewal Density.443 A7.2.2 Recurrence Times A7.2.3 Asymptotic Behavior A7.2.4 Stationary Renewal Processes A7.2.5 Homogeneous Poisson Processes.450 A7.3 Alternating Renewal Processes A7A Regenerative Processes A7.5 Markov Processes with Finitely Many States.458 A7.5.1 Markov Chains with Finitely Many States.458 A7.5.2 Markov Processes with Finitely Many States.460 A7.5.3 State Probabilities and Stay (Sojourn) Times in a Given Class of States. 469 A Method of Differential Equations A Method of Integral Equations A Stationary State and Asymptotic Behavior.474 A7.5.4 Frequency I Duration and Reward Aspects.476 A Frequency / Duration A Reward A7.5.5 Birth and Death Process A7.6 Semi-Markov Processes with Finitely Many States.483 A7.7 Semi-regenerative Processes A7.8 Nonregenerative Stochastic Processes

8 Contents XVII A7.S.l General Considerations. A7.S.2 Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes (NHPP) A7.8.3 Superimposed Renewal Processes... A7.8.4 Cumulative Processes.... A?8.5 General Point Processes AS Basic Mathematical Statistics A8.1 Empirical Methods A8.1.1 Empirical Distribution Function. 504 A8.1.2 Empirical Moments and Quantiles.506 A8.1.3 Further Applications of the Empirical Distribution Function.507 A8.2 Parameter Estimation A8.2.t Point Estimation A8.2.2 Interval Estimation A Estimation of an Unknown Probability p.516 A Estimation of the Paramo A. for an Exp. Distribution, Fixed T. 520 A Estimation of the Paramo ).. for an Exp. Distribution, Fixed n. 521 A8.2.2A Availability Estimation (Erlangian Failure-Free & Repair Times) 523 A8.3 Testing Statistical Hypotheses A8.3.1 Testing an Unknown Probability p A Simple Two-sided Sampling Plan.527 A Sequential Test A8.3.t.3 Simple One-sided Sampling Plan. 529 A8.3.IA Availability Demonstration (Erlangian Failure-Free & Rep. Times)531 A8.3.2 Goodness-of-fit Tests for Completely Specified FaCt) A8.3.3 Goodness-of-fit Tests for FO(t) with Unknown Parameters.536 A9 Tables and Charts A9.1 Standard Normal Distribution A9.2 X2-Distribution (Chi-Square Distribution).540 A9.3 r-distribution (Student distribution) A9A F Distribution (Fisher distribution) A9.5 Table for the Kolmogorov-Smimov Test.543 A9.6 Gamma Function A9.7 Laplace Transform A9.8 Probability Charts (Probability Plot Papers) A9.8.t Lognormal Probability Chart. 547 A9.8.2 Weibull Probability Chart.548 A9.8.3 Normal Probability Chart.549 AIO Basic Technological Component's Properties 550 All Problems for Home-Work Acronyms References Index

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