1. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chapter 6 Reliability Prediction and Modelling © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

2. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.1 Series System.

3. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.2 Dual redundant system.

4. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.3 Reliability block diagram for a missile system.

5. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.4 (a) Non-repairable system and (b) Repairable system.

6. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.5 Block diagram decomposition.

7. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.6 (a) Cut sets and (b) tie sets.

8. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.7 Effect of common mode failure.

9. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.8 Standard symbols used in fault tree analysis.

10. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.9 Reliability block diagram of engine.

11. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.10 FTA for engine (incomplete).

12. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.11 Two-state Markov state transition diagram.

13. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.12 Tree diagram for Example 6.5.

14. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.13 Transient availability of repaired system.

15. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.14 State–space diagram for a single-component repairable system.

16. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.15 Basic structures of logic relations for Petri nets (Courtesy S. Yang).

17. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.16 A fault tree (Courtesy S. Yang).

18. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.17 Correlations between fault tree and Petri net (Courtesy S. Yang).

19. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.18 The Petri net transformation of Figure 6.16 (Courtesy S. Yang).

20. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.19 Minimum cut sets of Figure 6.18.

21. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.20 The absorption principle of equivalent Petri nets (Courtesy S. Yang).

22. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.21 Petri net diagram for an airbag controller with a detection system (Kleyner and Volovoi, 2008).

23. Practical Reliability Engineering, Fifth Edition. Patrick D. T. O’Connor and Andre Kleyner. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Figure 6.22 System XYZ block diagram.