8th Semester

System Engineering and Reliability

ET-402
L T P Marks:
3 1 - Sessional: 25
Exam.: 75
Time : 3 Hrs.

Generalised principles of system modeling, some examples.

Linear programming, concept of convexity, simplex method, duality in linear
programming, cost flow and routing problems, critical path scheduling.
Elementary ideas of genetic algorithms.
Reliability and its importance, mortality curve, hazard rate, courses of failure, modes of
failure, general reliability function and other reliability functions. Mean time to failure (MTTF),
repair rate, mean-time-between failures (MTBF), availability, uptime, downtime. Failure
frequency and failure distributions. Reliability testing.
Reliability models statistical, structural, Markov, and fault tree. Reliability evaluation
using various models. Redundancy techniques. Reliability allocation and optimization.
Basic principles of maintainability, availability and security.
Basic concepts of fuzzy reliability, failure frequency and loss of load probability.

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. S.S. Rao, .Optimization Techniques.

2. R.J. Richards, Introduction to Dynamic and Control.
3. E. Balaguruswamy, Reliability Engineering.
4. A.K. Govil, Reliability Engineering .
5. KK Aggarwal, Reliability Engineering.
6. Martin L. Shooman, Probabilistic Reliability-An Engineering approach .