Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering
Dr. Andre V. Kleyner
Series Editor The Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering aims to provide a solid educational foundation for both practitioners and researchers in the Q&R field and to expand the reader’s knowledge base to include the latest developments in this field. The series will provide a lasting and positive contribution to the teaching and practice of engineering. The series coverage will contain, but is not exclusive to, Statistical methods Physics of failure Reliability modeling Functional safety Six-sigma methods Lead-free electronics Warranty analysis/management Risk and safety analysis
Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering
Reliability Analysis, Safety Assessment and Optimization: Methods and Applications in Energy Systems and Other Applications by Enrico Zio, Yan-Fu Li May 2022 Design for Excellence in Electronics Manufacturing Cheryl Tulkoff, Greg Caswell April 2021 Design for Maintainability by Louis J. Gullo (Editor), Jack Dixon (Editor) March 2021 Reliability Culture: How Leaders can Create Organizations that Create Reliable Products by Adam P. Bahret February 2021 Lead-free Soldering Process Development and Reliability by Jasbir Bath (Editor) August 2020 Automotive System Safety: Critical Considerations for Engineering and Effective Management Joseph D. Miller February 2020 Prognostics and Health Management: A Practical Approach to Improving System Reliability Using Condition-Based Data by Douglas Goodman, James P. Hofmeister, Ferenc Szidarovszky April 2019 Improving Product Reliability and Software Quality: Strategies, Tools, Process and Implementation, 2nd Edition Mark A. Levin, Ted T. Kalal, Jonathan Rodin April 2019 Practical Applications of Bayesian Reliability Yan Liu, Athula I. Abeyratne April 2019 Dynamic System Reliability: Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic and Dependent Behaviors Liudong Xing, Gregory Levitin, Chaonan Wang March 2019 Reliability Engineering and Services Tongdan Jin March 2019 Design for Safety by Louis J. Gullo, Jack Dixon February 2018 Thermodynamic Degradation Science: Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue and Reliability by Alec Feinberg October 2016 Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems by Kirk A. Gray, John J. Paschkewitz May 2016 Reliability and Risk Models: Setting Reliability Requirements, 2nd Edition by Michael Todinov November 2015 Reliability Analysis, Safety Assessment and Optimization Methods and Applications in Energy Systems and Other Applications
Enrico Zio
MINES ParisTech/PSL Université, Italy
Yan-Fu Li
Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Zio, Enrico, author. | Li, Yan-Fu, author. Title: Reliability analysis, safety assessment and optimization: methods and applications in energy systems and other applications / Enrico Zio, Yan-Fu Li. Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Series: Wiley series in quality & reliability engineering | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022009590 (print) | LCCN 2022009591 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119265870 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119265924 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119265863 (epub) | ISBN 9781119265856 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Reliability (Engineering) | Industrial safety. Classification: LCC TA169 .Z57 2022 (print) | LCC TA169 (ebook) | DDC 620/.00452--dc23/eng/20220316 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022009590 LC ebook record available at
