Syllabus - Safety & Reliability (EI 802 (B))

Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

Safety & Reliability (EI 802 (B))

VIII-Semester

Unit-1

Reliability and safety definitions, Risk factor, Classification of failures and protective measures. Safety measurement, Preliminary hazard analysis, Subsystem fault hazard analysis, Common mode failures, codes and standards for safety.

Unit-2

Reliability improvement

Redundancy element, Unit, and stand by optimization-cost trade off- Fault tree analysis- Constructions of Fault tree-Calculations of reliability from fault tree-reliability allocation- evaluation of reliability-test-O.C. curve specifying reliability acceptance test.

Unit-3

Definition of Quality-Quality control design-Product development cycle-Quality planning of manufacturing process-Process selection and control-Inspection and testing-Quality audit- Organizing for quality-Quality function-Quality engineering and quality control-Typical organization for quality : Small scale, Medium scale and Large scale organization.

Unit-4

Distribution, Markov modeling, Stress-strength approach to reliability design, Relationship between MTBF, hazard rate, failure rate, reliability.

Unit-5

Redundancy Engineering, Elementary Analysis and Estimation techniques.

techniques, examples from Electrical, Nuclear, Chemical and Process

Practicals

Reference Books

  • Jurian J.M., “Quality V Control Handbook”, McGraw Hill.

  • Grant E.L., &Levenworth, “Statistical Quality Control”, McGraw Hill.

  • Geedenko B.V., “Mathematical Methods of Reliability Theory”, Academic.

  • Mann, Schafer R.E., &Singapurvala N.D., “Mehods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life Date”

  • Reigenbaum V., “Total Quality Control”, McGraw Hill.

  • Trylot J.R., “Quality Control Systems-Procedures for Planning Quality Programs”.