Reliability, Risk, and Safety Engineering Textbooks

On this page, you will find a listing of textbooks covering topics relevant to Reliability, Operations, Safety, and Systems (ROSS).

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Reliability: Theory and Applications

Andrews, J. D. and T. R. Moss – “Reliability and Risk Assessment”, Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow, 1993.
Aven, Terje and Uwe Jensen – “Stochastic Models in Reliability”, Springer, New York, 1999. 🔗 Springer Link
Ayyub, Bilal M. & Richard H. McCuen – “Probability, Statistics and Reliability for Engineers”, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-2690-7, 1997.
Bagdonavicius, Vilijandas & Mikhail Nikulin – “Accelerated Life Models; Modeling and Statistical Analysis”, Chapman & Hall / CRC, ISBN 1584881860, 2001.
Balakrishnan, N. – “Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability”, CRC Press, 1995.
Barlow, Richard E. – “Engineering Reliability”, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1998.
Barlow, Richard E. and Frank Proschan – “Mathematical Theory of Reliability”, SIAM, Philadelphia, Classics in Applied Mathematics, 1996.
Bentley, John P. – “An Introduction to Reliability and Quality Engineering”, Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow, 1993.
Birolini, Alessandro – “Reliability Engineering; Theory and Practice” (Third edition), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999.
Blischke, W.R. and D.N.P. Murthy – “Reliability; Modeling, Prediction and Optimization”, Wiley, New York, 2000.
Blischke, W.R. and D.N.P. Murthy – “Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance”, Wiley, New York, 2003.
Condra, Lloyd C. – “Reliability Improvement with Design of Experiments” (2nd edition), Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001.
Crowe, Dana (Ed.) – “Design for Reliability”, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-1111-X, 2001.
Dhillon, Balbir S. – “Applied Reliability and Quality”, Springer, London, 2007.
Dhillon, Balbir S. – “Design Reliability; Fundamentals and Applications”, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-1465-8, 1999.
Dodson, Bryan and Dennis Nolan – “Reliability Engineering Handbook”, Marcel Dekker, 1999.
Ebeling, Charles E. – “An Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering”, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997.
Gertsbakh, I. B. – “Statistical Reliability Theory”, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1989.
Gertsbakh, I. B. – “Reliability Theory with Applications to Preventive Maintenance”, Springer, Berlin, 2000.
Gnedenko, Boris, Igor Pavlov and Igor Ushakov – “Statistical Reliability Engineering”, Wiley, New York, 1999.
Hayakawa, Yu, Telba Irony, and Min Xie (eds.) – “System and Bayesian Reliability” (Essays in honor of Professor Richard E. Barlow on his 70th birthday), World Scientific, 2001.
Henley, Ernest J. and Hiromitsu Kumamoto – “Probabilistic Risk Assessment; Reliability Engineering, Design, and Analysis”, IEEE Press, New York, 1992.
Hobbs, Gregg K. – “Accelerated Reliability Engineering”, Wiley, Chichester, 2000.
Høyland, Arnljot and Marvin Rausand – “System Reliability Theory; Models and Statistical Methods”, Wiley, New York, 1994.
Kapur, K. C. and L. R. Lamberson – “Reliability in Engineering Design”, Wiley, New York, 1977.
LaCombe, Donald J. – “Reliability Control for Electronic Systems”, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999.
Lewis, Elmer E. – “Introduction to Reliability Engineering”, Wiley, New York, 1987.
Marseguerra, Marzio and Enrico Zio – “Basics of the Monte Carlo Method with Application to System Reliability”, LiLoLe-Verlag, Hagen, Germany, 2002 (ISBN 3-934447-06-6).
Misra, K. B. (ed.) – “Handbook of Performability Engineering”, Springer, London, 2008.
Modarres, Mohammad, Mark Kaminskiy and Vasiliy Krivtsov – “Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis: A Practical Guide”, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999.
Modarres, Mohammad – “What Every Engineer Should Know About Reliability and Risk Analysis”, Marcel Dekker (ISBN: 0-8247-8958-X).
Murthy, D. N. P., Min Xie, and Renyan Jiang – “Weibull Models”, Wiley, New York, 2004.
Murthy, D. N. P., Rausand, Marvin, and Østerås, Trond – “Product Reliability: Specification and Performance”, Springer, London, 2008.
Nachlas, Joel A. – “Reliability Engineering; Probabilistic Models and Maintenance Methods”, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, 2005.
O’Connor, P.D.T. – “Practical Reliability Engineering” (3rd Edition), Wiley, Chichester, 1995.
Osaki, S. – “Stochastic System Reliability Modelling”, World Scientific, 1985.
Pecht, Michael (ed.) – “The Product Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability Handbook”, CRC Press, New York, ISBN 0-8493-9457-0, 1995.
Pukite, Paul and Jan Pukite – “Modeling for Reliability Analysis; Markov Modeling for Reliability, Maintainability, Safety and Supportability Analyses of Complex Systems”, IEEE Press, New York, 2000 (ISBN 0-7803-4744-7).
Rausand, Marvin and Arnjlot Høyland – “System Reliability Theory; Models, Statistical Methods and Applications” (2nd edition), Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004.
Singpurwalla, Nozer D. – “Reliability and Risk; A Bayesian Perspective”, Wiley, New York, 2006.
Smith, David J. – “Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance & Safety-related Systems” (7th ed.), Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 2005.
Tobias, Paul A. & David C. Trindade – “Applied Reliability, Second Edition”, Chapman & Hall / CRC, ISBN 0442004699, 1995.
Weibull.com – “System Analysis Reference: Reliability, Availability, and Optimization” (Available online).
Wolstenholme, Linda C. – “Reliability Modelling; A Statistical Approach”, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1999 (ISBN 1-58488-014-7).
Yang, Guangbin – “Life Cycle Reliability Engineering”, Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2007.
Zio, Enrico – “An Introduction to the Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis”, World Scientific, Singapore, 2007.
Zio, Enrico – “Computational Methods for Reliability and Risk Analysis”, World Scientific, Singapore, 2009.
Zio, Enrico, Baraldi, Piero, and Cadini, Francesco – “Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis: Worked Out Problems and Solutions”, World Scientific, Singapore, 2011.

Life Data Analysis

Ansell, Jake I. and M.J. Phillips – “Practical Methods for Reliability Data Analysis”, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.
Carlin, Bradley P. and Thomas A. Louis – “Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis”, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000.
Cox, D. R. and D. Oakes – “Analysis of Survival Data”, Chapman and Hall, London, 1984.
Crowder, M. J., A. C. Kimber, R. L. Smith and T. J. Sweeting – “Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data”, Chapman and Hall, London, 1991.
Kalbfleisch, J. D. and R. L. Prentice – “The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data”, Wiley, New York, 1980.
Klein, John P. and Melvin L. Moeschberger – “Survival Analysis; Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data”, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
Lawless, J. F. – “Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data”, Wiley, New York, 1982.
Mann, N. R., R. E. Schafer and N. D. Singpurwalla – “Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability and Life Data”, Wiley, New York, 1974.
Meeker, William Q. and Luis A. Escobar – “Statistical Methods for Reliability Data”, Wiley, New York, 1998.

Probabilistic Risk Assessment & Parameter Estimation

NUREG/CR-6823 (Atwood, C.L. et al.) – “Handbook of Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Risk Assessment”, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2003. 🔗 NRC.gov
Smith, Peter James – “Analysis of Failure and Survival Data”, Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2002, ISBN: 1-58488-075-9.
Weibull.com – “Life Data Analysis Reference” (Available online).

Expert Opinion & Judgment

Ayyub, Bilal M. – “Elicitation of Expert Opinions for Uncertainty and Risks”, CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-1087-3, 2001. 🔗 CRC Press

Functional Safety

AIChE – “Guidelines for Safe and Reliable Instrumented Protective Systems”, CCPS, Wiley, 2007. 🔗 AIChE
Goble, William M. & Harry Cheddie – “Safety Instrumented Systems Verification”, ISA, ISBN 1-55617-909-X.
Rausand, Marvin – “Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems: Theory and Applications”, Wiley, 2014.
Smith, David J. & Simpson, Kenneth G.L. – “Functional Safety: A Guide to IEC 61508” (2nd ed.), Elsevier, 2004.

Risk Analysis

Ansell, Jake & Frank Wharton – “Risk: Analysis, Assessment and Management”, Wiley, 1992.
Aven, Terje – “Foundations of Risk Analysis”, Wiley, 2003.
Other works by Aven:
- “Risk Analysis: Assessing Uncertainties Beyond Expected Values” (2008)
- “Misconceptions of Risk” (2010)
- “Quantitative Risk Assessment” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Ayyub, Bilal M. – “Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics”, CRC Press, 2003.
Bedford, Tim & Roger Cooke – “Probabilistic Risk Analysis”, Cambridge UP, 2001.
Ericson, Clifton A. – “Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety”, Wiley, 2005.
Koller, Glenn – “Risk Modeling for Decision Making”, CRC Press, ISBN 1-58488-167-4, 2000.
Kumamoto, Hiromitsu – “Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment”, Springer, 2007.
NASA – “Probabilistic Risk Assessment Procedures Guide”, 2002. 🔗 NASA
Rausand, Marvin – “Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Applications”, Wiley, 2011.
Vose, David – “Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide” (3rd ed.), Wiley, 2008.

Safety Theory & Management

Adams, John – “Risk”, UCL Press, 1995.
AIChE – “Guidelines for Risk-Based Process Safety”, Wiley, 2007.
Bernstein, Peter L. – “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, Wiley, 1996.
Hopkins, Andrew – “Lessons from Longford: The Esso Gas Plant Explosion”, CCH Australia, 2000.
Perrow, Charles – “Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies”, Basic Books, 1984.
Reason, James – “Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents”, Ashgate, 1997.
Vaughan, Diane – “The Challenger Launch Decision”, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

Environmental Risk Assessment

Benjamin, Sally L. & Belluck, D.A. – “Guide to Environmental Risk Assessment”, CRC Press, ISBN 1566704480, 2001.
Neely, W. Brock – “Introduction to Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment”, CRC Press, 1994.

Human Reliability & Error

AIChE – “Guidelines for Preventing Human Error in Process Safety”, 1994.
Reason, James – “Human Error”, Cambridge UP, 1990. 🔗 Cambridge UP
Kirwan, Barry – “Practical Human Reliability Assessment”, Taylor & Francis, 1994.

Maintenance Engineering

Blanchard, Benjamin S. et al. – “Maintainability: A Key to Effective Maintenance”, Wiley, 1995.
Moubray, John – “Reliability-Centered Maintenance” (2nd ed.), Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
Nakagawa, Toshio – “Maintenance Theory of Reliability”, Springer, 2005.
Smith, Anthony M. – “Reliability-Centered Maintenance”, McGraw-Hill, 1993.