Reliability in engineering design

Reliability measures are examined, taking into account the reliability function, the expected life, the failure rate and the hazard function, the reliability and hazard function for well-known distributions, hazard models and product life, the estimation of the hazard function and the reliability function from empirical data, and comments on distribution selection. Static reliability models are considered along with aspects of probabilistic engineering design, the combination of random variables in design, interference theory and reliability computations, reliability design examples, time-dependent stress-strength models, dynamic reliability models, the exponential distribution, the Weibull distribution, sequential life testing, and questions of reliability optimization. Aspects of Bayesian reliability in design and testing are discussed, giving attention to a Bayesian approach to statistical inference, a binomial distribution testing situation, and the application of Bayes theorem in design for reliability.