In this modern, computer-based text, the author develops synthesis and analysis methods for risk and reliability studies from fundamental principles, and apply them to realistic industrial-level problems. The full treatment of qualitative analysis methods includes: fault trees, FMEA, even trees, decision labels, cause-consequence charts, and common-mode failures . In addition, quantitative system analysis techniques.... kinetic free theory, cut set and prime implicant analysis and Markov and Monte Carlo methods... are thoroughly covered and developed.