Applications
Reliability modeling is a useful technique for scientists and engineers
to abstract the dynamic behavior of computer and communications,
aerospace, nuclear and similar systems in order to predict its
reliability. These methods can help compare design alternatives or
to find bottlenecks. The following examples show how these techniques
can be applied in different situations, and how measures of interests
such as reliability and mean-time to failure (MTTF) can be derived.
The following examples are drawn from the blue book
There are many more reliability modeling examples in chapters 1,3,4,6 and 8 of the blue book.