Areas of Expertise

• • Reliability Engineering

Selected Publications

• • Mangara, B.T. (2019). Consideration of Some Aspects of Designing with the Digital to Analogue Converter. In A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros (Ed.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Volume 320: Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining V, pp. 855-860. IOS Press.
• • Mangara, B.T. (2013). On Availability Importance of Components in Coherent Systems. South African Statistical Journal, 47(2), pp. 143-150.
• • Mangara, B.T. & Finkelstein, M. (2013). The Problem of Optimal Assignment of Interchangeable Components in Coherent Multi-State Systems. Advanced Science Letters, 19(8), pp. 2505-2510.

Books and Book Chapters

• • Mangara, B.T. (2017). Model Development for Reliability Cannibalization. In C. Volosencu (Ed.), System Reliability. InTech.
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• • Mangara, B.T. (2017). Model Development for Analysis of Steam Power Plant Reliability. In A.B. Nikolic & Z.S. Janda (Eds.), Recent Improvements of Power Plants Management and Technology. InTech.

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

• • Mangara, B.T. (2021). Revisiting Some Computation Methods for Estimating the Parameters of the Weibull Distribution. 3rd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 981-986.
• • Mangara, B.T. (2019). Consideration of Some Aspects of Designing with the Digital to Analogue Converter. 9th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet2019), held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy System and Data Mining (FSDM2019), Kitakyushu, Japan.
• • Mangara, B.T. & Chiyindiko, E. (2019). Revisiting the Concept of the Gifted Learners in the South African Context. ICERI2019 Proceedings, pp. 1638-1644.
• • Mangara, B.T. (2019). Class Attendance and Performance of Undergraduate Electronic Engineering Students: Exploring the Effects of Gender. Southern African Universities Power Engineering Conference / Robotics and Mechatronics / Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (SAUPEC / RobMech / PRASA), Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein.
• • Mangara, B.T. & Finkelstein, M. (2014). On the Improvement of Steam Power Plant System Reliability. 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2014), Dallas, Texas, USA.