System Reliability Theory.
Résumé
This book provides a basic, but rather comprehensive introduction to system relia- bility theory and the main methods used in reliability analyses. System reliability theory is used in many application areas. Some of these are illustrated in the book as examples and problems.
An immense amount of relevant information is today available on the Internet, and many of the topics in this book may be found as books, reports, lecture notes, or slides written by lecturers from many different universities. The quality of this infor- mation is varying and ranging from very high to rather low, the terminology is often not consistent, and it may sometimes be a challenge to read some of these Internet re- sources. The reader is encouraged to search the Internet for alternative presentations and compare with the book. This way, new ideas and increased insight may spring up.
With the abundance of free information on the Internet, it is pertinent to ask whether a traditional book is really needed. We strongly believe that a book may provide a more coherent knowledge and we have tried to write the book with this in mind.