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2. Failure Analysis
i) A system has six main components whose MTBF are 3500 hours, 5000 hours, 2300
hours, 1600 hours, 3200 hours and 4000 hours. Calculate the resulting reliability at
2000 hours of the system if the components were connected a) in series and b) in
parallel. (Assume negative exponential distribution is applicable in this case)
ii) MJ Enterprise has five departments: A, B, C, D, and E. The enterprise has been
collecting maintenance data for a long period. According to the data, it is shown that
department A produces 15% of all failures in the company whereas departments B, C,
D, and E produces 25%, 20%, 18% and 22% respectively. Further, it was found that
some of the failures are repairable whereas some are irreparable. According to the
data the irreparable breakdowns in departments A, B, C, D and E are 4%, 6%, 2%,
8% and 10% respectively
a) What is the probability that a random breakdown that has occurred in MJ
enterprise will be irreparable?
b) What is the probability that a random breakdown that has found irreparable
occurred in department B?
iii) Discuss the basic four characteristics of a Weibull distribution under different values
of
iv) Use the Weibull log-log paper distributed and the data shown on table 1 to calculate
the instantaneous failure rate at t=1000 hours of a piece of equipment, whose data is
shown on Table 1.
v) Comment on the age of the equipment whose data are shown on table 3
vi) What do you understand by the term attrition failure?
vii) What do you understand by the term instantaneous failure rate?
viii) Weibull distribution function and negative exponential function are among the highly
used distribution functions in failure analysis. At what juncture is Weibull distribution
function equals to the negative exponential function?
ix) Derive the formula to calculate the instantaneous failure rate from the first principle
using Weibull distribution function, and use the formula to calculate the instantaneous
failure rate of a system at 1000 hours after a replacement using the following available
data:
= 2.2, = 10; = 100
x) What is the basic (or main) reason of carrying out failure analysis?
xi) Briefly explain the following human errors that causes failure to occur: Errors of
knowledge, Errors of performance, Errors of intent
xii) Briefly discuss any 3 most common root cause analysis methods
xiii) Using examples contrast primary cause and root cause
3. Reliability Analysis
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b)
i) Determine the probability that a system will operate for 50 hours without failure if it
is known that the system has a mean life of 100 hours.
ii) If the system in i) is installed in 10 different equipment what is the probability that 7
such equipment will operate without failure for 40 hours?
iii) If 4 of the system in i) are connected in a) series, b) parallel, what will be the resulting
reliability of the system at t=50?
c) Use the figure below and calculate the reliability of the system if all of the shown
maintenance action were failure based maintenance actions