A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be very effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the wor
Recent surveys of the U.S. infrastructure’s condition have rated a staggering number of bridges structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While not necessarily unsafe, a structurally defi
Containing the lectures and papers at the 10th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR2009, Osaka, Japan), this volume treats every aspect of safety and reliability of
This handbook studies the combination of various methods of designing for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, as well as the latest techniques in probability and possibility modeli
Reliability-based design is the only engineering methodology currently available which can ensure self-consistency in both physical and probabilistic terms. It is also uniquely compatible with the th
Reliability and survival analysis are important applications of stochastic mathematics (probability, statistics and stochastic processes) that are usually covered separately in spite of the similarity
Here is the first book to discuss the current understanding of silver metallization and its potential as a future interconnect material for integrated circuit technology. With the lowest resistivity o
Component failure rate data are a vital part of any reliability or safety study and highly relevant to the engineering community across many disciplines. The Reliability Data Handbook focuses on the c
Probabilistic reasoning, statistical methods, and measures of engineering judgment are combined to develop a quantified approach for analyzing and managing risks in civil engineering systems and appli
At first there was the Markov property. The theory of stochastic processes, which can be considered as an exten- sion of probability theory, allows the modeling of the evolution of systems through the
Scientists and engineers from a variety of disciplines offer 62 papers, many of them emphasizing the importance of interactions among the different materials and associated interfaces comprising a sin
The annual snapshot of the subject presents 78 papers covering a historical summary of the past 30 years, copper metallization, the characterization of electromigration phenomena, modeling, microstruc
Why suppose that sense perception is an accurate source of information about the physical environment? More generally, is it possible to demonstrate that our basic ways of forming beliefs are reliable
Mirroring the topical content of the April 1995 symposium (held at the MRS Spring Meeting), this volume contains invited and contributed papers in the areas of modeling and simulation of failure mecha
Proceedings from the Materials Research Society symposium held in San Francisco, April 1994. Invited and contributed papers cover oxides, thin films, experimental techniques, stress in semiconductors
