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Although engineers do their best to create systems and components with the best possible integrity, 100% reliability is not likely to be obtained due to many causes. As we discussed in Chapter 1, failure mechanisms may become active in products due to defective components under unexpected loading conditions, errors or defects in manufacturing processes, and even inadequate design of the system and its components, as some of the causes commonly found. Generally, we can classify some common factors resulting in a loss of product integrity. These may include: ignorance of the loading conditions or actual environmental conditions subjected to the system, inability to maintain control of the system in its operation, and inherent randomness embedded in the system from variations in materials properties and the geometry which describes the components in the system. All these factors work in combination or separately to create uncertainty for the performance and life of the products and systems engineers endeavor to develop.
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Hahn, H.S. (2001). Elements of Probability for Reliability Assessment. In: Evans, J.W., Evans, J.Y. (eds) Product Integrity and Reliability in Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0253-3_2
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