ME 4571 Combat Survivability: Reliability and Systems Safety Engineering Lecture Hours: 4 Lab Hours: 1

Description: This course provides the student with an understanding of the essential elements in the study of survivability, reliability and systems safety engineering for military platforms including submarines, surface ships, fixed-wing and rotary wing aircraft, as well as missiles, unmanned vehicles and satellites. Technologies for increasing survivability and methodologies for assessing the probability of survival in a hostile (nonnuclear) environment from conventional and directed energy weapons will be presented.

Several in-depth studies of the survivability various vehicles will give the student practical knowledge in the design of battle-ready platforms and weapons. An introduction to reliability and system safety engineering examines system and subsystem failure in a nonhostile environment. Safety analyses (hazard analysis, fault-tree analysis, and component redundancy design), safety criteria and life cycle considerations are presented with applications to aircraft maintenance, repair and retirement strategies along with the mathematical foundations of statistical sampling, set theory, probability modeling and
probability distribution functions.

Aircraft Combat Survivability Short Course

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Weaponeering Short Course

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Course Textbooks and Information

Textbook: "The Fundamentals of Aircraft Combat Survivability Analysis and Design"
By Robert E. Ball, Copy of 2nd Edition Draft provided to you. Electronic version of text available at http://www.aircraft-survivability.com

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