APPLICATION OF RELIABILITY TO THE DESIGN OF SHIPS' MACHINERY

The reliability approach to the design of ship's engineering systems is of recent origin and has been brought to the fore by economic pressures. This paper discusses two ways in which reliability can be used as an aid to a cost effective design and also discusses in more detail specific topics such as data collection, failure mode and effect analysis, criticality analysis, Markov analysis, simulation and sensitivity analysis. An appendix is included which shows the basic theory associated with the reliability predictions.

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  Institute of Marine Engineers

  Memorial Building, 76 Mark Lane
  London EC3R 7JN,   England 
• Authors:
  • Bridges, D C
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 109-122
• Serial:
  • Institute of Marine Engineers Transactions
  • Volume: 86
  • ISSN: 0309-3948

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Failure; Failure analysis; Mechanical failure; Reliability
• Old TRIS Terms: Failure mode; Machinery failure modes
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072935
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Series A, Part 6
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 1 1975 12:00AM