Reliability-Based
Mechanical Design,
Volume 1
Component under
Static Load
Xiaobin Le
Synthesis Lectures on
Mechanical Engineering
XIOABIN LE
RELIABILITYBASED MECHANICAL DESIGN, VOL. 1
MORGAN & CLAYPOOL
Synthesis Lectures on
Mechanical Engineering
Reliability-Based Mechanical Design, Volume 1
Component under Static Load
Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology
A component will not be reliable unless it is designed with required reliability. Reliability-Based
Mechanical Design uses the reliability to link all design parameters of a component together to form
a limit state function for mechanical design. is design methodology uses the reliability to replace
the factor of safety as a measure of the safe status of a component. e goal of this methodology
is to design a mechanical component with required reliability and at the same time, quantitatively
indicates the failure percentage of the component. Reliability-Based Mechanical Design consists of
two separate books: Volume 1: Component under Static Load, and Volume 2: Component under Cyclic
Load and Dimension Design with Required Reliability.
is book begins with a brief discussion on the engineering design process and the fundamental
reliability mathematics. en, the book presents several computational methods for calculating the
reliability of a component under loads when its limit state function is established. Finally, the book
presents how to establish the limit state functions of a component under static load and furthermore
how to calculate the reliability of typical components under simple typical static load and combined
static loads. Now, we do know the reliability of a component under static load and can quantitively
specify the failure percentage of a component under static load.
e book presents many examples for each topic and provides a wide selection of exercise problems
at the end of each chapter. is book is written as a textbook for junior mechanical engineering
students after they study the course of Mechanics of Materials. is book is also a good reference book
for design engineers and presents design check methods in such sucient detail that those methods
are readily used in the design check of a component under static load.
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Series ISSN: 2573-3168