Course Catalog 2006-2007

MAT-51656 RELIABILITY MATHEMATICS, 6 cr
Reliability Mathematics

Courses persons responsible
Keijo Ruohonen

Lecturers
Keijo Ruohonen

Objectives
Introduction to the mathematical and statistical methods and tools of reliability engineering.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Descriptive reliability. Failure distributions and statistics. Reliability of networks and structured systems. Availability and maintainability.       

Requirements for completing the course
Active participation in exercises and written solutions to homework exercises, or a closed-book written exam.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Study material
    Type Name Auhor ISBN URL Edition, availability... Exam material Language
    Summary of lectures Luotettavuus, käytettävyys, huollettavuus Ruohonen, K.   http://math.tut.fi/~ruohonen/LT.pdf   No  Finnish 
    Book Reliability Theory With Applications to Preventive Maintenance Gertsbakh, I.       No  English 
    Book Statiscal Models and Methods for Lifetime Data Lawless, J.F.       No  English 

    Prerequisites
    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Additional information about prerequisites
    A basic course on probability and statistical methods is required.

    Remarks

    Lectured at most every second year.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

  • The course is suitable for postgraduate studies.

  • Course will not be lectured in the academic year 2006-2007.

    • Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 96
    Exercises 48
    Total sum 144

    Correspondence of content
    MAT-51650 Reliability Mathematics

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    Last modified 22.09.2006
    Modified byKeijo Ruohonen