Handbook of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety in Engineering Design - Part 84 studies the combination of various methods of designing for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, as well as the latest techniques in probability and possibility modelling, mathematical algorithmic modelling, evolutionary algorithmic modelling, symbolic logic modelling, artificial intelligence modelling, and object-oriented computer modelling, in a logically structured approach to determining the integrity of engineering design. . | 816 Index equivalent availability EA 400-402 413 414 change 410 equivalent maintainability measures downtime and outage 403 equivalent mean time to outage 405 equivalent mean time to restore 406 407 equivalent operational time 401 ergonomics 304 error back propagation 709 error-prone automation feature 535 establishment costs 319 estimated degree of safety 653 estimating failure rate 198 estimation 502 estimator 196 consistent 197 unbiased 197 evaluation design automation EDA 33 38 event 178 190 event tree boundary condition 563 conditional probability 560 construction 557 evaluation 562 fault-tree linking 564 quantitative assessment 560 RBD 641 event tree analysis ETA 543 554 568 634 evolutionary algorithm EA 496 678 685 evolutionary computing 681 evolutionary computing technique 686 evolutionary design 146 681 execution policy 442 EXP transition 444 expected availability 408 expected maximum corrective maintenance downtime 359 expected performance 20 expected useful life 613 615 expert judgement 214 215 228 234 728 expert system 27 28 728 777 branched decision tree 769 framework 173 models 217 multiple-choice question editor 767 rule-based 29 rule editor 771 rules of the knowledge base 770 shell 29 tool 148 user interface 762 exponential distribution estimating the parameter 200 exponential failure distribution 90 93 198 exponential probability density function 198 ExSys Expert System 765 777 Extend 486 Extend ModL language 497 Extend Performance Modelling 495 511 extended FMECA 179 190 uncertainty 180 extended reachability graph 445 external uncertainty 428-430 extreme condition approach 428 429 434 F fabrication costs 64 facts frame 760 761 failed state 404 failure analysis 12 failure cause 138 141 failure consequences 140 541 severity 666 failure cost criticality 272 failure criticality ranking 272 failure data analysis 282 failure definition and quantification FDQ 46 failure density 379 failure density function 670 failure detection 138 failure detection .
