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Reliability and Functional Safety

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0969/01
Abbreviation SaFB
Course title Reliability and Functional Safety
Credits 10
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jan Famfulík, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Basic terms: time to failure, failure rates, backup, architecture.
2. Probabilistic distribution in reliability theory: exponential, Weibull, normal, logarithmic-normal, gamma distribution, Poisson distribution, binomial distribution. Estimation of reliability characteristics for complete and incomplete random samplings: sampling schedules, MLE and MM methods.
3. Analysis and reliability of the system: Boolean algebra, coherent systems, reliability of coherent systems.
4. Multi-track systems: non-repairable parallel, serial systems, etc., comparison of different models.
5. Availability of repairable systems: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), definitions and symbols for FTA, structural functions and coherence, FTA and coherent structure, qualitative and quantitative analysis using analytical approach, modularization of fault tree.
6. Simulation approach for FTA analysis: Monte Carlo simulation for repairable systems, scattering methods.
7. Software tools for quantitative risk assessment: Demonstration of reliability calculations using advanced software applications.
8.The importance of functional safety, risk analysis, means of risks reduction, safety proof types.

Povinná literatura

Famfulik, J., Richtar, M., Reliability of Technical Systems, 2019, VSB – TU Ostrava
Rausand, M.,Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems: Theory and Applications, Wiley, Hoboken NJ, 2014.
Smith, D. J., Simpson, K., Functional Safety: A straightforward guide to applying IEC 61508 and related standards, (2nd edition), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004.
Goble, W., Control Systems Safety Evaluation and Reliability, International Society of Automation; 3 edition, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-1934394809 .
Rausand, M., Hoyland, A., System Reliability Theory, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004
Misra K.B.; Reliability Analysis and Prediction, Elsevier 1992, ISBN 0-444-89606-6. Barlow,R.E.- Proschan,F.:Mathematical Theory of Reliability, SIAM 1996, ISBN-89871-369-2. Hurt J.: Teorie spolehlivosti, MFF UK Praha 1984.
Barlow,R.E.- Proschan,F.:Mathematical Theory of Reliability, SIAM 1996, ISBN-89871-369-2. Hurt J.: Teorie spolehlivosti, MFF UK Praha 1984.

Advised literature

Langenhan, T., Still basic guide to automotive functional safety, Verlag epubli Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7418-1974-2 .
Aven, T., Quantitative Risk Assessment: The Scientific Platform, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2011.
Fleming T.R., Harrington D.P., Counting Processes and Survival Analysis, Wiley 1991, ISBN 0-471-52218-X Modares M.; What Every Engineer Should Know About Reliability and Risk Analysis, Dekker 1993 ISBN 0-8247-8958-X.
Bagdonavicius, V., Nikulin, M., Accelerated Life Models; Modeling and Statistical Analysis", Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2001, ISBN 1584881860