Course Contents

Basic concepts of reliability, Structural reliability, Lifetime distributions (Failure Models): Hazard rate; Gamma, Weibul, Gumball, Log-Normal and Inverse Gaussian distribution, Stochastic fatigue rate models, Point and interval estimation, Fatigue-life model. Testing reliability hypotheses, Monto-Carlo, distribution- free and Bayes’ methods in reliability, System reliability; series and parallel systems, Failure models, (k-out-of-m) New-better-than used models, Inference for these models, Accelerated life testing.