Reliability Design Handbook

Abstract : This Reliability Design Handbook is intended to serve as a tool for designers of military equipment and, in particular, for designers of equipment items that would typically make up avionics systems. The handbook provides guidelines for use by design engineers to assure the achievement of a reliable end product. From the standpoint of design, it is consistent with, and extends, basic concepts and reliability improvement techniques described in MIL-HDBK- 217B. Specifically, the handbook provides design information, factors, and parameters, and other engineering data affecting reliability. In addition, the handbook describes the approach to reliable design, includes theoretical and cost considerations and describes methods covering such considerations as part control, derating, environmental resistance, redundancy and design evaluation.