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IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007

RELIABILITY & SAFETY ENGINEERING
(Electronics & Control Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) State the three fundamental axioms of probability.

(b) Explain the following properties of probability.
i. Addition rule for two events
ii. Complentation rule
(c) If the probability that any person thirty years old will be dead within one year
is 0.01, find the probability of the follwoing events. Out of 10 such people
i. None
ii. One
iii. Not more than one
iv. More than one
v. At least one
will be dead within one year

2. (a) Define the hazard function h(t) and the reliability function R(t) and derive
the relationship between them
(b) The hazard function of a component is given by h(t)=(1+0.5t)×10−2/hour
Calculate the reliability of the component for a mission time of 10hours.

3. A computer system has three subsystem with reliabilities as shown

(a) Card reader 0.7

(b) CPU 0.9
(c) Printer 0.8

Design a system with component redundancy so that

(a) The system reliability is not less than 0.9

(b) The total number of components in the system is minimum.

4. (a) Maintainance action helps to improve reliability - explain.

(b) Explain the various methods of improving the reliability of a system.
(c) Clarify the role of reliabilty and maintainability in improving the system ef-
fectiveness.

5. (a) Explain the various types of tests used in reliabiliry evaluation

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(b) Seven pumps have failure times of 15.1,10.7,8.8,11.3,12.6,14.4 and 8.7 months.
Assuming exponential distribution, estimate the reliability of the pump at
t=12months.

6. (a) Define a terotechnology system. Illustrate the operation of one particular

system.
(b) Discuss the impact of tero technology on maintenance management.

7. (a) State the various factors on which the human failure rate for a particular
operation depend
(b) Explain the process of human reliability analysis

8. Write brief notes on the following:

(a) Reliability demonstration tests

(b) Markov model of a component with repair and maintenance
(c) Accelerated life testing.

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