RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

1. Define reliability.
2. What is meant by component mortality?
3. Write the expression to compute system reliability of a system with two units in parallel.
4. State the assumptions used in replacement models.
5. How do you measure risk?
6. List out the factors that affect spare parts planning.
7. Distinguish between 'a priori' and 'a posteriori' probability of failure.
8. If the maintenance action rate is 0.25, and the maintenance time constraint is 2 hrs,
compute maintainability.
9. Draw bath tub graph.
10. What are the merits of conducting FMEA study?
11. Compare Reliability and Quality.
12. Define A priori probability of survival.
13. Define MTTF. How it differs from MTBF?
14. Give any two methods for testing the goodness of fit of data to distribution.
15. What do you mean by redundant system? How it differs from standby system?
16. Give the importance of fault tree analysis.
17. What do you mean by reliability centered maintenance?
18. Define Availability?
19. What do you mean by ALARP?
20. Give some hazard identification methods.
21. Represent a reliability graph using probability density function.
22. Bring out the differences between a k-out-of-n redundant system and n unit parallel
redundant system.
23. List out the procedure used in Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness of fit test.
24. Define risk.
25. A system used in defense aircraft has a radar, a computer and a missile unit connected in
series with failure rates of 0.0214 fph, 0.00135 fph and 0.01623 failures per hour
respectively. Compute system reliability.
26. How do you compute the upper and lower bounds on MTBF when reliability testing is
terminated based on pre-assigned time?
27. Define human reliability.
28. Draw the idealized growth curve and state the significance of this curve.
29. A system has three identical subsystems in parallel redundancy. What is the system
reliability if the subsystem reliability is 0.80?
30. What are the measures of central tendency of failure distribution?
31. Compare Reliability and Quality.
32. Establish a relationship between hazard rate and reliability. A system has a linearly
increasing hazard rate z(t) = a + bt. Obtain its reliability function.
33. Discuss the importance of normal and weibull distribution in the field of reliability
engineering.
34. The random variation with respect to time in the output voltage of an electrical system
are exponentially distributed with a mean value of 200V. What is the probability that the
output voltage at any time will lie in the range of 180 to 200V.
35. Distinguish between the following: i) Failure rate and Hazard rate, ii) MTTF and MTBF,
iii) Reliability and Maintainability
36. Derive reliability function for constant failure rate model.
37. Discuss about the empirical methods used for Grouped and ungrouped complete data.
38. What is a standby system? Derive reliability equation for a two unit standby system.
39. Derive MTBF of a two unit standby redundant system.
40. Write a brief note on reliability testing.
41. Twenty units were placed on test until 15 failures were recorded. The following failure
times in hours were observed. Test whether the data fits exponential with 90%
confidence using Bartlett's test. 79.4, 88.3, 10.6, 54.4, 33.2, 16.9, 47.1, 23.7, 11.0, 62.2.
64.0, 42.8, 21.9, 17.4 and 33.6.
42. Failure rate of an electronic sub-system is 0.0005 failures per hour. If an operational
period of 500 hours with a probability of success of 0.95 is desired, what level of parallel
redundancy is needed?
43. What is meant by redundancy? Differentiate clearly between component redundancy and
the system redundancy.
44. Write Short notes on I. Reliability growth monitoring, II. Reliability allocation
45. Discuss in detail the importance of Risk Measurement and steps involved in it.
46. Explain the Steps involved in conducting FMEA study in detail.
47. Explain the Bath-Tub curve of a product and its significance in each stage.
48. Explain the steps involved in Chi-Square goodness of fit test.
49. Give classification of failure data based on data collection methods
50. Write short notes on the following: i) Failure data classification ii) Survival curves
51. Discuss about the application of Probabilistic Risk Assessment in chemical industry.
52. Write short notes on: i) Economic life ii) Reliability allocation
53. Explain the basic elements of a fault tree analysis with neat sketch for each element.
54. If a device has a failure rate of 5x10-6 failures per hour, what is its reliability for an
operating period of 500 hours?
55. If there are 10,000 items in the test, how many failures are expected in 500 hours?
56. If the useful life is 100,000 hours, what is reliability for operating over its useful life?
57. Write short notes on: i) Reliability allocation, ii) Spares planning
58. Give the detailed procedure of implementing a Probabilistic Risk Assessment
programme.
59. Consider a complex system configuration of your choice. There should be atleast 5
components in the system. Demonstrate the application of Baye's decomposition method
of estimating reliability for this configuration.
60. Bring out the application of Binomial distribution to determine the reliability of parallel
redundant systems.
61. Describe the stepwise procedure in constructing a fault tree with an example of your
choice.
62. Discuss in detail various models used in the demonstration of maintainability of a unit.
Illustrate the use of repair time distributions.
63. Write about the types of reliability testing methods.
64. Conduct a sequential reliability test with producer's risk=0.05, consumer's risk=0.10,
upper MTBF= 1000 hrs and lower MTBF=550 hrs.
65. A component has MTBF=200 hr and MTTR=10 hr with both the failure and repair
distributions exponential. What is the point availability at t=10hr?
66. Give a report on different measures of availability.
67. An air craft land on two engines though it has four. If each engine has a reliability of
0.95, find the probability of successful landing.
68. Seven components a, b, c, d, e, f and g of a system are connected as shown below. The
numerals indicate the reliability of each element. Estimate the reliability of the system.
69. An Electronic equipment contains 500 resistors. When any resistor fails, it is replaced.
The cost of replacing resistor individually is Rs. 20, if all the resistors are replaced at the
same time the cost per resistor is Rs.5. the percentage surviving, s(i) at the end of month
I is given in table below. What is the optimum replacement plan?

70. Find out the reliability of the given system.