Course Catalog 2007-2008

MAT-51656 RELIABILITY MATHEMATICS, 6 cr
Reliability Mathematics

Courses persons responsible
Risto Silvennoinen

Lecturers
Risto Silvennoinen

Implementations
Programs: Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Management and Engineering, Information Technology, Fiber and Textile Technology, Automation Engineering, Materials Science, Environmental and Energy Technology, Information and Knowledge Management, Communications and Electronics, Science and Engineering, Biotechnology
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Lecture - - - 4 h/week 4 h/week -
Exercise - - - 2 h/week 2 h/week -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

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. Reliability optimization. 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
    Book Reliability Theory With Applications to Preventive Maintenance Gertsbakh, I.       Yes  English 
    Book Engineering Reliability Barlow, R.       Yes  English 
    Summary of lectures Luotettavuus, käytettävyys, huollettavuus Ruohonen, K.   http://math.tut.fi/~ruohonen/LT.pdf   No  Finnish 

    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.

  • The course is suitable for postgraduate studies.

  • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

  • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
    - In the visualization of objects and phenomena, e.g. animations, demonstrations, simulations, video clips

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 96
    Exercises 48
    Total sum 144

    Correspondence of content
    MAT-51650 Reliability Mathematics

    Last modified 06.03.2007
    Modified byKeijo Ruohonen