Week 1: Introduction Unit CIEM42X0-PD and Reliablity-Based Design

Lecture

Introduction to unit
Reliability-based design principles
Tuesday, 15:45-16:45, Hall 1.98

Homework

Review exercises in textbook Chapter 1. Review MUDE materials for weeks 1.7 and 2.7.

Workshop

Robert will introduce material in class. Questions and link to interactive notebook are here. Solution here
Friday, 9:45-12:30, Hall 1.95

The main goals for this week are:
1. Understand the context and purpose of the three parts of the unit
2. Solve a simple reliability problem (load and resistance)
3. Remember the “stuff” we did in MUDE

Read Chapter 1 of the textbook and do the exercises. Note that the textbook already includes some chapters from MUDE, but make sure you also review these two key chapters in the MUDE book, as will start using these concepts extensively in Week 2: continuous distributions and extreme value analysis.
Lecture:
- Slides (PDF), Part 1 (unit introduction and logistics)
- Slides (PDF), Part 2 (reliability-based design context)
- Collegerama recording (all recordings listed here).

Focus primarily on Chapter 1 of the book and make sure you work through the exercise (Section 1.3) before Friday.
Review the assignments from MUDE, particularly the workshops from Project 11 and Week 15, as well as Project 4 and Project 11.