Advances in Reliability and Maintainability Methods and Engineering Applications

Multi-Criteria based Selection of Ship-Based Ballast Water Treatment Technologies.- A Two-Phase Sampling Approach for Reliability-based Optimization in Structural Engineering.- Moment Estimation-Based Method of Motion Accuracy Reliability Analysis for Industrial Robots.- Reliability of Wireless Body Area Networks.- Sensitivity Estimation of Markov Reward Models and Its Applications to Component Importance Analysis.- Failure Rate Modeling of Mechanical Components and Systems.- Statistical Reliability Modeling and Analysis for Repairable Systems with Bathtub-Shaped Intensity Function.- Multi-state Signatures for Multi-State Systems with Binary/Multi-State Components.- Comprehensive Reliability of Aircraft Actuation System.- Integration of Reliability Design, Installed Base, and After-Sales Services for System Availability.- Use of Artificial Neural Networks to Enhance Container Port Safety Analysis under Uncertainty.- Usage ofFailure Time and Repair Time for Optimization of Maintenance and Warranty Policy and Lemon Law Application.- Reliability and opportunistic maintenance of floating offshore wind turbines.- A Summary of Inspection Policies of One Shot Systems.- Analysis for influence of maintenance and manufacturing quality on reliability of repairable systems.- Quantification of Uncertainty of Warranty Claims.- Manufacturing paradigm-oriented PHM methodologies for cyber-physical systems.- Degradation modeling and residual life prediction based on nonlinear Wiener process.- System reliability models with dependent degradation processes.- A Study of Health State Transitions for Proactive Health Management.- Kalman filter-based systems approach for prognostics and health management of electric motors.- Exploratory Fault Detection with Multivariate Data: A case study on engine bearing.- Novel approach to Prognostics and Health Management to combinereliability

Yu Liu is a full professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, from 2008 to 2010, and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, from 2012 to 2013. His research interests include system reliability modeling and analysis, maintenance decisions, prognostics and health management, and design under uncertainty. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IISE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, and ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Mechanical Systems, and Signal Processing. He has been recognized as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier since 2016. He was a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and the HIWIN Doctoral Dissertation Award sponsored by HIWIN Technologies Corporation and Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers. He serves as the vice president of the Reliability Committee of Operations Research Society of China and the associate editor of IISE Transactions and IEEE Transactions on Reliability. He is a fellow of ISEAM. 

 

Dong Wang received his Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2015. He was a senior research assistant, postdoctoral fellow, and research fellow at City University of Hong Kong. He is currently an associate professor in Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, where he is also connected with State Key Laboratory of Mechanical