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Fundamentals of Reliability ? M. Pandey, University of Waterloo Example Problem Solution: First combine the parallel components 2 and 3 The probability of failure is The reliability is Example: Compute the reliability and probability of failure for the following system. Assume the failure probabilities for the components are Q1 = 0.01, Q2 = 0.02 and Q3 = 0.03. 2 3 1 Fundamentals of Reliability ? M. Pandey, University of Waterloo Solution (cont’d) Next, combine component 1 and the sub-system (2,3) in series The probability of failure for the system is then The system reliability is Fundamentals of Reliability ? M. Pandey, University of Waterloo Solution (cont’d) The system probability of failure is equal to The system reliability is which is also equal to RSYS = 1 – QSYS As shown in this example, the system probability of failure and reliability are dominated by the series component 1 i.e. a series system is as good as its weakest link Fundamentals of Reliability ? M. Pandey, University of Waterloo Things to Consider Reliability block diagrams can also be used to assess Voting systems (k-out-of-n logic) Standby systems (load sharing or sequential operation) Simple systems can be assessed by gradually reducing them to equivalent series/parallel configurations More complex systems would require the use of a more comprehensive approach, such as conditional probabilities or imaginary components For complex systems, great effort is needed to identify the ways in which the system fails or survives Fault trees can be used to decompose the main failure event into unions and intersections of sub-events Event trees can be used to identify the possible sequence of events (also failures) Fundamentals of Reliability ? M. Pandey, University of Waterloo UN 0701 Engineering Risk and Reliability ? M. Pandey University of Waterloo NSERC-UNENE Industrial Research Chair Institute for Risk Research University of Waterloo Fundamentals of Reliability ? M. Pandey, University o