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Reliability-Based Mechanical Design, Volume 1: Component under Static Load
Xiaobin Le
www.morganclaypool.com
ISBN: 9781681736594 paperback
ISBN: 9781681736600 ebook
ISBN: 9781681736617 hardcover
DOI 10.2200/S00949ED1V01Y201908MEC020
A Publication in the Morgan & Claypool Publishers series
SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Lecture #20
Series ISSN
Print 2573-3168 Electronic 2573-3176
Reliability-Based
Mechanical Design
Volume 1
Component under Static Load
Xiaobin Le
Wentworth Institute of Technology
SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING #20
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ABSTRACT
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 is Reliability-Based Mechanical Design, Volume 1: Component under Static Load.
It begins with a brief discussion on the engineering design process and the fundamental relia-
bility 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 sufficient
detail that those methods are readily used in the design check of a component under static load.
KEYWORDS
reliability, reliability-based design, mechanical component, mechanical design,
computational method, numerical simulation, static load, limit state function, fail-
ure, safety, probability
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To my lovely wife, Suyan Zou,
and to my wonderful sons, Zelong and Linglong
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