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This book presents recent advances in performability analysis methods and their applications in different fields. It covers various aspects of performability such as quality, reliability, maintainability, availability, safety, security, and sustainability that are essential in complex engineering systems such as electrical grids, chemical plants, naval defense systems, structures, nuclear reactors, railways, etc. This book is a collection of research works contributed by the former students of Professor KB Mishra who is a renowned researcher in reliability engineering. This book is useful for the researchers and professionals working in the area of performability engineering.

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Dr. Durga Rao Karanki is currently working as a Senior RAMS Engineer at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). Earlier he worked as a RAMS Manager at Siemens Mobility AG (2017-2022), responsible for RAMS Management of European Train Control System projects. Prior to switching to the railway industry, he worked as a Scientist at two premier national labs, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, ETH Board Switzerland) (2009-2017) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (India) (2002- 2009). Primarily his research focused on dynamic safety assessment, uncertainty management, and risk informed decision making of nuclear power plants. He is also a visiting faculty at several technical institutes. He has actively been involved in research and development of Reliability and Safety methods and their applications for the last 21 years. His research resulted in more than 70 publications including 4 books, several journal articles and conference papers, with more than 1500 citations.  He received two awards for research Excellency from Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management. He is on the editorial board of three international journals in the area of reliability and risk analysis. He holds bachelor’s degree (2000) in electrical and electronics engineering from the Nagarjuna University (India), masters (2002) in Reliability Engineering from Reliability Engineering Centre of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and Ph.D. (2008) from the IIT Bombay.

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