INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

NAME OF DEPTT./CENTRE:
1. Subject Code: EE-684
2. Contact Hours:

Course Title: System Reliability

L: 3

T: 1

3. Examination Duration (Hrs.):

4. Relative Weight:
5. Credits: 4

Department of Electrical Engineering

CWS: 25

Theory: 3
PRS: 0

MTE: 25

6. Semester: Both

P: 0
Practical: 0
ETE: 50

PRE: 0

7. Subject Area: PEC

8. Pre-requisite: NIL
9. Objective:
To introduce the concepts of reliability modeling of systems and their applications in
assessing the system adequacy in terms of relevant reliability indices.
10. Details of Course:
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Contents

Contact Hours

Review of Probability Theory: Probability concepts, rules for

combining probability, probability distributions, random variables,
density and distribution functions, mathematical expectations,
variance and standard deviation.
Catastrophic failure models: Component reliability from test data,
MTTF, time dependent hazard models, stress dependent hazard
models, treatment of field data
Basic Reliability Evaluation: General reliability functions,
probability distributions in reliability evaluation, and evaluation of
series, parallel, series parallel, and complex systems, event space
method, cut-set method, tie-set method, and other methods, discrete
Markov chains, continuous Markov process, frequency and duration
technique concepts, standby and k out of n:G systems, application to
multi-state problems, approximate system reliability evaluation,
fault tree technique
Reliability enhancement: Component improvement, proper design
and simplicity, creative design, conservative design and derating,
redundancy and redundancy allocation

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Contents

Contact Hours

Drift failures: Concept of drift failures, failure mechanism, change

in device and unit performance with time and loading/stresses,
accelerated stress testing, creative design for drift failures.
System with repair: Availability, maintainability, MTBF, MTTR,
UTR, k-out of n:G system with repair and installation, preventive
maintenance.
Total

5
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42

11. Suggested Books:

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Name of Authors /Books / Publishers

Shooman M.L., Probabilistic Reliability, an Engineering Approach,
McGraw Hill
Sinha S.K., Reliability and Life Testing, Wiley Eastern Limited
Gupta A.K., Reliability, Maintenance and Safety Engineering,
University Science Press
Fuqua N.B., Reliability Engineering for Electronic Design, Marcel
Dekker Inc.

Year of
Publication/
Reprint
1968
1986
2009
1986