Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems

Part I. Fundamentals of Simulation in Reliability and Availability Issues

1. Reliability Estimation by Advanced Monte Carlo Simulation
Enrico Zio, Nicola Pedroni

2. Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis: Simulation Approach
K. Durga Rao, V.V.S. Sanyasi Rao, A. K. Verma, A. Srividya

3. Analysis and Improvements of Path-based Methods for Monte Carlo Reliability Evaluation of Static Models
Héctor Cancela, Pierre L’Ecuyer, Matías Lee, Gerardo Rubino, Bruno Tuffin

4. Variate Generation in Reliability
Lawrence M. Leemis

Part II. Simulation Applications in Reliability

5. Simulation-based Methods for Studying Reliability and Preventive Maintenance of Public Infrastructure
Abhijit Gosavi, Susan Murray

6. Reliability Models for Data Integration Systems
Adriana Marotta, Héctor Cancela, Verónika Peralta, Raul Ruggia

7. Power Distribution System Reliability Evaluation Using Both Analytical Reliability Network Equivalent Technique and Time-sequential Simulation Approach
Peng Wang, Lalit Goel

8. Application of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Simulation to Process Industries: a Case Study
Aijaz Shaikh, Adamantios Mettas

9. Potential Applications of Discrete-event Simulation and Fuzzy Rule-based Systems to Structural Reliability and Availability
Angel A. Juan, Albert Ferrer, Carles Serrat, Javier Faulin, Gleb Beliakov, Joshua Hester

Part III. Simulation Applications in Availability and Maintenance

10. Maintenance Manpower Modeling: A Tool for Human Systems Integration Practitioners to Estimate Manpower, Personnel, and Training Requirements
Mala Gosakan, Susan Murray

11. Application of Monte Carlo Simulation for the Estimation of Production Availability in Offshore Installations
Kwang Pil Chang, Daejun Chang, Enrico Zio

12. Simulation of Maintained Multicomponent Systems for Dependability Assessment
Valérie Zille, Christophe Bérenguer, Antoine Grall, Antoine Despujols

13. Availability Estimation via Simulation for Optical Wireless Communication
Farukh Nadeem, Erich Leitgeb

Avainsanat: Engineering, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Simulation and Modeling, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design