B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Institute Level Optional Subject I Reliability Engineering Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Institute Level Optional Subject I- Reliability Engineering
Module 1: Probability theory: Probability: Standard definitions and printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Contents
- concepts; Conditional Probability, Baye’s Theorem. Probability Distributions: Central tendency and Dispersion; Binomial, Normal, Poisson, Weibull, Exponential, relations between them and their significance. Measures of Dispersion: Mean Median, Mode, Range, Mean Deviation, Standard Deviation, Variance, Skewness and Kurtosis.
Module 2: Reliability Concepts: Reliability definitions, Importance of printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Contents
- Reliability, Quality Assurance and Reliability, Bath Tub Curve. Failure Data Analysis: Hazard rate, failure density, Failure Rate, Mean Time To Failure (MTTF), MTBF, Reliability Functions. Reliability Hazard Models: Constant Failure Rate, Linearly increasing, Time Dependent Failure Rate, Weibull Model. Distribution functions and reliability analysis.
Module 3: System Reliability: System Configurations: Series, parallel, printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Contents
- mixed configuration, k out of n structure, Complex systems.
Module 4: Reliability Improvement: Redundancy Techniques: Element printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Contents
- redundancy, Unit redundancy, Standby redundancies. Markov analysis. System Reliability Analysis – Enumeration method, Cut-set method, Success Path method, Decomposition method.
Module 5: Maintainability and Availability: System downtime, Design for printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Contents
- Maintainability: Maintenance requirements, Design methods: Fault Isolation and self-diagnostics, Parts standardization and Interchangeability, Modularization and Accessibility, Repair Vs Replacement. Availability – qualitative aspects.
Module 6: Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis: Failure mode printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Contents
- effects analysis, severity/criticality analysis, FMECA examples. Fault tree construction, basic symbols, development of functional reliability block diagram, Fau1t tree analysis and Event tree Analysis
References
- 1 L.S. Srinath, “Reliability Engineering”, Affiliated East-Wast Press (P) Ltd., 1985.
- 2 Charles E. Ebeling, “Reliability and Maintainability Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill.
- 3 B.S. Dhillion, C. Singh, “Engineering Reliability”, John Wiley & Sons, 1980.
- 4 P.D.T. Conor, “Practical Reliability Engg.”, John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
- 5 K.C. Kapur, L.R. Lamberson, “Reliability in Engineering Design”, John Wiley & Sons.
- 6 Murray R. Spiegel, “Probability and Statistics”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Chemical Engineering) under R-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Modules are numbered in sequence here; in the syllabus itself, Module 1 is printed as Module Detailed Contents; Module 2 is printed as Module Detailed Contents; Module 3 is printed as Module Detailed Contents; Module 4 is printed as Module Detailed Contents; Module 5 is printed as Module Detailed Contents; Module 6 is printed as Module Detailed Contents. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
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