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This document is a tutorial for a university course on reliability and maintainability engineering. It provides exercises from Chapter 5 of the course textbook. The exercises include calculating reliability for redundant systems, determining the number of components needed in parallel systems to achieve a specified reliability, and evaluating the reliability of series and parallel systems using different methods.

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Mie469 Tutorial 3

This document is a tutorial for a university course on reliability and maintainability engineering. It provides exercises from Chapter 5 of the course textbook. The exercises include calculating reliability for redundant systems, determining the number of components needed in parallel systems to achieve a specified reliability, and evaluating the reliability of series and parallel systems using different methods.

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MIE469 Tutorial 3

Reliability and Maintainability Engineering (University of Toronto)

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University of Toronto
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
MIE469: Reliability and Maintainability Engineering
(Winter 2019)

Tutorial 3
January 29th 2019
Chapter 5 Exercises

5.3 Which system, (i) or (ii), has the higher reliability at the end of 100 operating hours?

(i) Two CFR components in parallel each having an MTTF of 1000 hr.
(ii) A Weibull component with a shape parameter of 2 and a characteristic life of 10,000
hr in series with a CFR component with a failure rate of 0.00005.

5.9 For each of the following redundant systems, determine the component MTTF necessary to
provide a system reliability of 0.90 after 100 hr of operation. The components have the same
constant failure rate.

5.10 Itsa Failing, a reliability engineer, has determined that the reliability function for a critical
10
solid-state power unit for use in a communications satellite is 𝑅𝑅 (𝑡𝑡) = , 𝑡𝑡 ≥ 0 , and t
10+𝑡𝑡

measured in years.

(a) How many units must be placed in parallel in order to achieve a reliability of 0.98 for
5 yr of operation?
(b) If there is an additional common mode, constant failure rate of 0.002 as a result of
environmental factors, how many units should be placed in parallel? Compute the
achieved system reliability.

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5.13 The following natural gas distribution network contains five shut-off valves configured as
shown. Valves 1-4 have a probability of 0.02 of failing open and a probability of 0.15 of failing
short. Valve 5 has a probability of 0.05 of failing open and a probability of 0.20 of failing short.
Find the system reliability.

Hint: Rs = (reliability with respect to open) - (probability of failing short)

5.38 Let R equal the reliability of a single aircraft engine over a specified mission time. Over
what range of values for R is a 2-engine aircraft more reliable than a 4-engine aircraft? For the
2-engine aircraft, both engines must perform. For the 4-engine aircraft at least 3 out of 4
engines must perform. You can assume that engine failures are independent of one another.

5.39 Find the reliability of the following block diagram using (a) the decomposition method and
(b) enumeration.

5.30 Determine the reliability of the system.

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