Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Assessment, Assessment, Hardware, Software and Human Factors

Part of a two-volume work which presents the methods and techniques used to assess and measure the dependability of industrial systems, this book concentrates on the specific methods used to solve reliability problems, taking into account human factors, mechanics and software. SPECIFIC METHODS.

Dependent and Common-Cause Failures.

Human Factors.

Mechanics.

Software Domain.

Assessing Safety.

COMPUTERIZED METHODS.

Computer Codes for Dependability Assessment.

Automatic Assessment of Dependability.

CONCLUSIONS.

Dependability Assessment Approach.

Dependability Assessment Application.

CASE STUDIES.

Analysis of a Set of Elementary Systems by Different Methods.

Human Reliability Assessment.

Appendices.

Index.

Alain Villemeur is the author of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Assessment, Volume 2, Assessment, Hardware, Software and Human Factors, published by Wiley. Presents methods and techniques for assessing the reliability, availability, maintainability or safety of industrial systems. Describes the history of dependability concepts and methods and also defines the main concepts and principles of predictive analysis used. The second section is a detailed description of principles and methods. The third deals with the specific methods used in the fields of human factors, mechanics, software and safety assessment. The last section lists the main computer programs developed to assess dependability and common cause failures.