I: Introduction -- II: Elements of System Theory -- 2.1 Definitions of Dynamic Input-Output and State Space Models -- 2.2 Observability, Reconstructability and Controllability -- 2.3 Realization Theory -- 2.4 Canonical Forms -- 2.5 Stability -- A: Modelling, Filtering and Identification -- III:...

1 Introduction and summary -- 2 Basic concepts of reliability analysis -- 2.1 Mission profile, reliability block diagram -- 2.2 Failure rate -- 2.3 Reliability function, MTTF, MTBF -- 2.4 More general considerations on the concept of redundancy -- 2.5 Failure mode analysis and other reliability...