Abdelkhalak El Hami & David Delaux 
Reliability and Physics-of-Healthy in Mechatronics 

This book illustrates simply, but with many details, the state of the art of reliability science, exploring clear reliability disciplines and applications through concrete examples from their industries and from real life, based on industrial experiences.

Many experts believe that reliability is not only a matter of statistics but is a multidisciplinary scientific topic, involving materials, tests, simulations, quality tools, manufacturing, electronics, mechatronics, environmental engineering and Big Data, among others.

For a complex mechatronic system, failure risks have to be identified at an early stage of the design. In the automotive and aeronautic industries, fatigue simulation is used both widely and efficiently. Problems arise from the variability of inputs such as fatigue parameters and life curves. This book aims to discuss probabilistic fatigue and reliability simulation.

To do this, Reliability and Physics-of-Healthy in Mechatronics provides a study on some concepts of a predictive reliability model of microelectronics, with examples from the automotive, aeronautic and space industries, based on entropy and Physics-of-Healthy.

About the author

Abdelkhalak El Hami is Full Professor of Universities at INSA-Rouen-Normandie, France. He is the author/co-author of several books and is responsible for several European pedagogical projects. He is a specialist in fluid structure interaction and problems of optimization and reliability in multi-physical systems.

David Delaux is Reliability Director at Valeo and Reliability Senior Expert. An Honorary Visiting Professor at Bradford University, UK, he is also a national auditor/assessor at COFRAC (ISO 17025), President of the European Campus of Statistics Statistical Analysis For Industry (SAFI), Expert for the European Innovation Council and President of the association ASTE. He is also the former President of the European Reliability Environmental Confederation (CEEES).

Henri Grzeskowiak is a Technical Expert at Matra BAe Dynamics and MBDA (missile). He is also an auditor at COFRAC, Head of Department of Environmental Engineering (Matra & MBDA) as well as former President of the Standardization Committee for Mechanical & Climatic Environment (DGA) and of the association ASTE (France) and CEEES (Europe).