7. Repair and Maintenance of Engineering Systems

7. Repair and Maintenance of Engineering Systems

7.1 Need for Maintenance

• Importance and benefits

7.2 Safety and Protective Coatings

• Fire and electrical safety

• Corrosion types and prevention

• Coating systems and cathodic protection

7.3 Maintenance Strategies

• Preventive and breakdown maintenance

• TPM and condition monitoring

7.4 System Safety and Reliability

• Failure modes

• MTBF

• Fault tree and event tree analysis

• Hazard analysis

7.5 Risk Assessment

• Risk definition and measurement

• Risk analysis and reduction

7.6 Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

• Ultrasonic testing

• Dye penetration

• Magnetic, X-ray, eddy current testing