**Meet the editor**

Constantin Volosencu is a professor at "Politehnica" University from Timisoara, Department of Automation. He is the author and editor of 14 books, author of over 200 scientific papers published in journals and conference proceedings, author of 27 patents and manager of research grants. He is a member of editorial boards of international journals, former plenary speaker, a member in scientific

committees and the chair at international conferences. He has researches in the field of control systems, electrical drives, power ultrasonic, fuzzy logic, neural networks, fault detection and diagnosis, sensor networks and distributed parameter systems. He developed electrical equipment for machine tools, spooling machines, high-power ultrasonic processes and others, with homologation of 30 prototypes and series zero.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Methodology 3**

**Impact Loading 27** Seong‐woo Woo

Dehombreux

**Reliability 93**

Jon T. Selvik and Eric P. Ford

Yi Xiao‐Jian, Shi Jian and Hou Peng

Chapter 1 **Complex System Reliability Analysis Method: Goal‐Oriented**

Chapter 2 **Reliability Design of Mechanical System‐Like Water‐Dispensing System in Refrigerator Subjected to Repetitive**

Chapter 3 **Down Time Terms and Information Used for Assessment of**

Chapter 4 **Updated Operational Reliability from Degradation Indicators**

**and Adaptive Maintenance Strategy 67**

Chapter 5 **Obtaining and Using Cumulative Bounds of Network**

Alexey S. Rodionov and Denis A. Migov

Chapter 6 **Spare Parts Forecasting Based on Reliability 113** Nataša Kontrec and Stefan Panić

Bernard Tonderayi Mangara

Chapter 7 **Model Development for Reliability Cannibalization 129**

**Equipment Reliability and Maintenance Performance 43**

Christophe Letot, Lucas Equeter, Clément Dutoit and Pierre

**Section 1 Reliability 1**

## Contents

## **Preface XIII**


## Chapter 8 **Reliability Evaluation of Drivetrains: Challenges for Off‐ Highway Machines 147**

Lothar Wöll, Katharina Schick, Georg Jacobs, Achim Kramer and Stephan Neumann

Chapter 16 **Techno-Economic Feasibility Study of Autonomous Hybrid**

Magdiel Schmitz, Maria Clara Ferreira Almeida da Silva, Vinícius Jacques Garcia, Daniel Bernardon, Lynceo Favigna Braghirolli and

Contents **VII**

Chapter 18 **Imperfect Maintenance Models, from Theory to Practice 335** Filippo De Carlo and Maria Antonietta Arleo

Chapter 19 **A Decision Support System for Planning and Operation of**

**Maintenance and Customer Services in Electric Power**

Chapter 20 **Optimum Maintenance Policy for Equipment over Changing of**

Ibrahima dit Bouran Sidibe and Imene Djelloul

Carlos Henrique Barriquello, Vinícius Jacques Garcia, Magdiel Schmitz, Daniel Pinheiro Bernardon and Júlio Schenato Fonini

**AC/DC Microgrid System 299**

**Distribution Systems 317**

**Distribution Systems 355**

**the Operation Environment 371**

Chapter 17 **Resource Planning to Service Restoration in Power**

Atanda K. Raji

**Section 4 Maintenance 315**

Júlio Fonini

	- **Section 3 Power System Reliability and Feasibility 239**

Chapter 8 **Reliability Evaluation of Drivetrains: Challenges for Off‐**

Chapter 9 **Reliability Prediction Considering Multiple Failure**

Chapter 11 **Reliability Prediction of Smart Maximum Power Point Converter for PV Applications 203** Giovanna Adinolfi and Giorgio Graditi

**Power Electronic Packages 185**

**Section 3 Power System Reliability and Feasibility 239**

Chapter 13 **Coordination and Selectivity of Protection Devices with**

Chapter 14 **An Analysis of Software and Hardware Development in the**

**Implementation in the Polish Power Grid 259**

Rabah Medjoudj, Hassiba Bediaf and Djamil Aissani

Chapter 15 **Power System Reliability: Mathematical Models and**

**PMU-Based Technology and Suggestions Regarding Its**

**Reliability Assessment in Distribution Systems 241** Marco Antônio Ferreira Boaski, Caio dos Santos, Mauricio

Sperandio, Daniel Pinheiro Bernardon, Maicon Jaderson Ramos and

Chapter 10 **The Importance of Interconnection Technologies' Reliability of**

Chapter 12 **Low‐Frequency Noise and Resistance as Reliability Indicators of Mechanically and Electrically Strained Thick‐Film**

Lothar Wöll, Katharina Schick, Georg Jacobs, Achim Kramer and

**Highway Machines 147**

**Section 2 Reliability of Electronic Devices 165**

Stephan Neumann

**VI** Contents

**Mechanisms 167** Joseph B. Bernstein

Sébastien Jacques

**Resistors 221** Zdravko Stanimirović

Daniel Sperb Porto

Michał Szewczyk

**Applications 279**


Preface

activities of maintenance must be involved.

mental ideas to address applied problems in novel ways.

hopes and their motivation and achieving their goals.

power system reliability and feasibility and maintenance.

System reliability has its importance in engineering, to identify the least reliable components in the system in order to improve the design. In the complex system, this becomes a difficult task. In this domain, the analysts need a mathematical approach to identify and to quantify the importance of each component in the system. For keeping a system in working conditions,

Researchers from the entire world write to figure out their newest results and to contribute new ideas or ways in the field of system reliability. They were inventive and see the field as inspiration for research. The kinds of applications they treat are indicative of each author's interest and engagement. The book shows the degree of information from authors in the field

The authors choose to publish their research project results to explain reliability patterns in different applications, to explain variations of parameter in different industrial processes and to test the consequences of parameter variations on processes; they conducted experimental tests of hypothesis, developed mathematical versions of reliability models and used funda‐

The authors were motivated to write the chapters to keep them focused, energized and in‐ spired, using the great opportunity for publishing in an open access way through a wellknown publishing house. The preface must be seen as a good thought of wisdom about their

In a brief description, the book has four sections: reliability, reliability of electronic devices,

The book can become a valuable tool for professors, students and professionals, with its pre‐ sentation of some issues that may be taken as examples applicable to new practical situations.

The book presents cases that illustrate the application in a variety of domains. The first section begins with an interesting system reliability analysis based on goal-oriented methodology, fol‐ lowed by some applications as reliability design of water-dispensing systems, based on field data and parametric accelerated life tests; reliability evaluation of drivetrains for off-highway machines, taken into consideration the load cycles and components load, with examples of ap‐ plication of the power shift transmission and the offshore winch; a predictive analysis on equipment downtime in the oil and gas industry to improve maintenance and to prevent haz‐ ardous event that could harm people and the environment; a study for extending the useful life of asset, based on an adaptive maintenance methodology that uses the reliability-centred maintenance approach to define a degradation-based adaptive maintenance model; a study in the area of network reliability analysis to speed up obtaining of the cumulative bounds for

and their dedication, appreciation and enthusiasm of the field they care about.

Based on the authors' experience, the book may be popular among specialists.
