Abstract
Technological systems are designed to perform well-defined tasks. However, these systems and their environments are often inordinately complex, and the designer invariably suffers from incomplete knowledge of the properties of the system and its environmental conditions. One aim of reliability analysis and design is to enhance the robustness of the system to the uncertainties inherent in limited information. A system is reliable if it is robust with respect to these uncertainties. In other words, a system is reliable if it will perform satisfactorily in the presence of large uncertainties. On the other hand, a system is unreliable if it can fail due to even small deviations from nominal circumstances.
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Ben-Haim, Y. (1996). Preview of Robust Reliability. In: Robust Reliability in the Mechanical Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61154-4_1
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