Bathtub Failure Rate and Upside-Down Bathtub Mean Residual Life

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 388-391

  Mi, Jie ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub shape; Burn in; Failure rate; Mean residual life; Upside down bathtub shape

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SERVICE LIFE;

BATHTUB FAILURE RATE; BURN IN; UPSIDE DOWN BATHTUB MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

EID: 0029379498     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.406570     Document Type: Article

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