INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

NAME OF DEPTT./CENTRE: Department of Electrical Engineering

1. Subject Code: EE-684 Course Title: System Reliability

2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 1 P: 0

3. Examination Duration (Hrs.): Theory: 3 Practical: 0


4. Relative Weight: CWS: 25 PRS: 0 MTE: 25 ETE: 50 PRE: 0


5. Credits: 4 6. Semester: Both 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:
S. No. Contents Contact Hours
1. Review of Probability Theory: Probability concepts, rules for
combining probability, probability distributions, random variables,
density and distribution functions, mathematical expectations,
variance and standard deviation.
3
2. Catastrophic failure models: Component reliability from test data,
MTTF, time dependent hazard models, stress dependent hazard
models, treatment of field data
5
3. 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
12
4. Reliability enhancement: Component improvement, proper design
and simplicity, creative design, conservative design and derating,
redundancy and redundancy allocation
10
S. No. Contents Contact Hours
5. 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.
5
6. System with repair: Availability, maintainability, MTBF, MTTR,
UTR, k-out of n:G system with repair and installation, preventive
maintenance.
7
Total 42


11. Suggested Books:

S. No. Name of Authors /Books / Publishers Year of
Publication/
Reprint
1. Shooman M.L., Probabilistic Reliability, an Engineering Approach,
McGraw Hill
1968
2. Sinha S.K., Reliability and Life Testing, Wiley Eastern Limited 1986
3. Gupta A.K., Reliability, Maintenance and Safety Engineering,
University Science Press
2009
4. Fuqua N.B., Reliability Engineering for Electronic Design, Marcel
Dekker Inc.
1986