Reliability and Safety Analyses under Fuzziness [Paperback]

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date account on recent applications of fuzzy sets and possibility theory in reliability and safety analysis. Various aspects of system's reliability, quality control, reliability and safety of man-machine systems fault analysis, risk assessment and analysis, structural, seismic, safety, etc. are discussed. The book provides new tools for handling non-probabilistic aspects of uncertainty in these problems. It is the first in this field in the world literature.Introductory Sections.- Foundations of Reliability and Safety.- Brief Introduction to Fuzzy Sets.- Reliability and Safety Analyses under Fuzziness: General Issues.- System Reliability from the Viewpoint of Evaluation and Fuzzy Sets Theory Approach.- Issues in Possibilistic Reliability Theory.- Coherent Systems in Profust Reliability Theory.- The Usefulness of Complete Lattices in Reliability Theory.- Fault Tree Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets and Possibility Theory.- Multi State Fault Tree Analysis Using Fuzzy Probability Vectors and Resolution Identity.- Fuzzy Fault Tree Analysis : Case Studies.- Faes  Fault Analysis Expert System.- Life Time Analysis and Fuzzy Sets.- Reliability Estimation based on Fuzzy Life Time Data.- Lifetime Tests for Imprecise Data and Fuzzy Reliability Requirements.- Reliability and Quality Control in Engineering Systems.- Reliability Behavior of Combined Hardware-Software Systems.- An Application of Fuzzy Set Theory to Reliability Analysis.- Application of Fuzzy Relational Modelling to Industrial Product Quality Control.- An Application of Fuzzy Structural Modeling to Relation Diagram Method in Quality Control.- Reliability of Man-Machine Systems.- Human Reliability Analysis with Fuzzy Integral.- Fuzzy Reliabilty Analysis of Labour (Man-Machine) Systems.- Safety and Risk Analyses.- Risk Index and Application of Fuzzy Logic.- Risk-Based Ranking in Inspection of Industrial Facilities.- A Probabilistic-Fuzzy Model for Seismic Hazard.- Seismic Reliabilil32