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Reliability Analysis During the Design Phase

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Reliability analysis during the design and development phase is important to detect and eliminate reliability weaknesses as early as possible and to perform comparative studies with respect to reliability. Such an analysis includes failure rate and failure mode investigations, verification that design guidelines for reliability have been considered, and cooperation in design reviews. This chapter presents methods and tools for the failure rate and failure mode analysis of complex electronic and electromechanical equipment and systems. Design guidelines for reliability, maintainability, and software quality are given in Chapter 5. Design reviews are discussed in Appendices A3 and A4. Reliability tests are considered in Chapters 3, 7, and 8. After a short introduction (Section 2.1), Section 2.2 deals with series/parallel structures. Complex structures, elements with more than one failure mode, and parallel models with load sharing (e. g. for standby redundancy) are considered in Section 2.3. Reliability allocation is introduced in Section 2.4. Stress/strength and drift analyses are discussed in Section 2.5. Section 2.6 deals with failure mode analyses and Section 2.7 gives a list of questions for reliability aspects in design reviews. Computer aided analysis is considered in Section 6.8.2. Theoretical foundations for this chapter are given in Appendix A6.

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