Reliability of Mechanical Systems

John Davidson graduated as a Mechchanical Engineer, and then spent three years studying in the United States, first at the University of Kansas and then at Massachusettes Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a Master's Degree in Industrial Management. He was commissioned in REME on his return to the UK and spent two years in Germany.

• Part One: The philosophy, principles, and concepts of reliability engineering The concept of mechanical reliability Operational and cost implicationsSummary. Part Two: Analysis of in-service reliability experience Analysis of in-service experience for mechanical componentsAnalysis of in-service experience for repairable systems Part Three: A basic approach to reliability assessment for mechanical process systems Uses of reliability assessmentThe analysis of simple systemsActive parallel systems with partial redundancy and systems with standby units Part Four: Techniques for process plant reliability assessment Reliability predictionFault Tree AnalysisFailure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)Complex systems: some further methods of analysis Part Five: Collection and processing of reliability data Introduction to data collectionData requirements and reliability parametersReliability data collection systems Part Six: Case Studies