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Reliability-based maintenance 781


 
Modulekode MII 781
Kwalifikasie Postgraduate
Fakulteit Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
Module-inhoud

Component reliability: Weibull analysis, Limitations of Weibull analysis – when not to use it. System reliability and availability: reliability/availability modelling, the availability block diagram (ABD), Cut sets, capacity constraints, m-out-of-n systems and storage capacity, Fault trees, Failure modes, Effects and criticality analysis (FMECA).  Failure and repair rate data: Reliability engineering’s red herring: “We don’t have the data”, Some data banks that are in fact useful, Data synthesis: the method of paired comparisons, Paper on The use of NERC-GADS data in determining standards for system design, Case study in and exercise in data synthesis.
Modulekrediete 16.00
NQF Level 08
Prerequisites MIR 781 Reliability engineering 781
Contact time 21 contact hours per semester
Language of tuition Module is presented in English
Department Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Period of presentation Semester 1 or Semester 2
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