The public standards, papers and primary documents this topic draws on. Every factual claim in the preceding chapters traces to one of these; the numeric examples (the chi-square bound computation, the structure comparison values) are illustrative arithmetic and belong to no source.
Standards and handbooks
- IEC 60050-192:2015, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, Part 192: Dependability, International Electrotechnical Commission, February 2015, with Amendment 1, 2016 (the qualitative definition of reliability at IEV 192-01-24 and the quantified reliability measure at 192-05-05).
- MIL-STD-721C, Definitions of Terms for Reliability and Maintainability, US Department of Defense, 12 June 1981, since cancelled (the classic probability definition of reliability; the MTBF, MTTF, MTTR, failure-rate and wearout definitions).
- MIL-STD-785B, Reliability Program for Systems and Equipment Development and Production, US Department of Defense, 15 September 1980; cancelled by Notice 3, 30 July 1998, without a government successor (the reliability programme task catalogue).
- SAE GEIA-STD-0009A, Reliability Program Standard for Systems Design, Development, and Manufacturing, SAE International (the outcome-based successor to the military programme standard).
- IEC 60300-1:2024, Dependability management, Part 1: Guidance for management and application, International Electrotechnical Commission, 2024 (the international dependability-management frame; replaces the 2014 edition).
- MIL-HDBK-781A, Reliability Test Methods, Plans, and Environments for Engineering, Development Qualification, and Production, US Department of Defense, 1 April 1996 (demonstration test plans and environments).
- MIL-HDBK-189C, Reliability Growth Management, US Department of Defense, 2011 (the Duane and Crow/AMSAA growth models as standardised practice).
- MIL-HDBK-338B, Electronic Reliability Design Handbook, US Department of Defense, 1 October 1998 (design-for-reliability practice, system modelling, and programme context).
Primary reports and papers
- Advisory Group on Reliability of Electronic Equipment (AGREE), Reliability of Military Electronic Equipment, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, 4 June 1957 (the discipline's founding programme document).
- T. J. Duane, "Learning Curve Approach to Reliability Monitoring", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace, 1964 (the original reliability-growth observation).
- G.-A. Klutke, P. C. Kiessler and M. A. Wortman, "A Critical Look at the Bathtub Curve", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 52, no. 1, March 2003 (the peer-reviewed critique cited under the bathtub curve's limits).
Literature
- P. D. T. O'Connor and A. Kleyner, Practical Reliability Engineering, 5th edition, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 2012, ISBN 978-0-470-97981-5 (the standard practitioner textbook covering the theory in this topic).
- NIST/SEMATECH, e-Handbook of Statistical Methods, Chapter 8: Assessing Product Reliability, National Institute of Standards and Technology (the reliability-function relationships, distribution properties, and estimation machinery).
For the method-level sources behind the analyses this topic points to, see the Reliability Prediction references and the Reliability Allocation references.