This unit covers reliability and risk assessment general theory, i.e. terms and concepts (e.g. ISO31000 about risk assessment, mathematics of probability and statistics); reliability engineering, i.e. failure mechanism and failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA/FMECA), reliability function and hazard rate, failure/repair data analysis and graphical tools (Weibull plotting, hypothesis testing), point estimates of MTTF/MTTR and confidence limits, reliability block diagrams (RBD), Monte Carlo simulation, reliability testing and FRACAS, maintenance strategies and RCM, maintainability analysis, spare provision, availability models, life cycle cost (LCC); risk assessment methodology and process... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz
Prerequisites: enrolment in the Master of Professional Engineering; for pre-2012 courses: MATH1010 Calculus and Linear Algebra or MATH1020 Calculus, Statistics and Probability or MATH1001 Mathematical Methods 1 or equivalent
