Course detail
Transport Machines and Equipment Dependability
FSI-QDSAcad. year: 2020/2021
This course provides a comprehensive overview on fundamentals of dependability engineering in the area of mechanical design. Special attention is paid to transport machines and equipment dependability. The course deals with both theoretical and practical applications of dependability engineering. All considerations are related especially to the vehicle design process; nevertheless questions of dependability testing and dependability in use are also presented. The course mainly includes: non-repairable and repairable system dependability modelling, methods of inherent reliability analysis, FMEA/FMECA method, fault tree method, problems of vehicle maintainability and maintenance optimisation, dependability testing and data collection. Practical problem solving further solidifies the knowledge of these applications.
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Knowledge of principles and interdependence of presented problems and practical ability to apply individual methods and procedures. Ability of practical usage of methods and procedures is examined during solving assignments. Basic condition: participation at seminars, fulfilment of tests and individual elaboration of scheduled tasks without major mistakes.
Examination:
Knowledge of theoretical basis of dependability and techniques for dependability assurance in the case of transport machines and equipment is tested during the examination. Ability of practical usage of theoretical knowledge is tested at practical tasks. Examination consists of a written part (5 practical tasks) and oral part (verification of knowledge on the theoretical basis).
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Kececioglu, D.: Reliability Engineering Handbook. Volume 1 & 2. New York: Prentice Hall, 1991.
Meeker, Q. W. & Escobar L. A.: Statistical Methods for Reliability Data. New York: John Wiley, 1998.
Recommended reading
Holub, R. & Vintr, Z.: Základy spolehlivosti. Brno: Vojenská akademie, 2002.
Holub, R.: Zkoušky spolehlivosti. (Stochastické metody). Brno: Vojenská akademie, 1992.
Kececioglu, D.: Reliability Engineering Handbook. Volume 1 & 2. New York: Prentice Hall, 1991.
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2. Fundamental definitions and terms.
3. Fundamentals of probability a statistical tools for dependability.
4. Modelling dependability of items.
5. Modelling non-repairable systems dependability.
6. Methods of non-repairable systems dependability analysis.
7. Modelling repairable systems dependability.
8. FMEA/FMECA method and method of fault tree.
9. Maintainability and maintenance policies.
10. Theory of dependability testing.
11. Compliance and determination dependability tests.
12. Reliability growth testing.
13. Dependability data collection, software for dependability.
Exercise
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2. Failure classification.
3. Operations with events, calculation of event appearance probability.
4. Usage of statistical tools for items reliability estimation.
5. Practical design of reliability block diagrams.
6. Reliability measures estimation for non-repairable systems.
7. Usage of Markov models.
8. Analysis of vehicle system reliability using the FMECA and fault tree.
9. Maintainability and availability measures estimation for transport machines.
10. Application of Reliability centred maintenance.
11. Test plans, calculation of cumulative time of test.
12. Analysis of reliability test data and reliability growth monitoring.
13. Practical usage of software for vehicle system reliability analysis.