Reliability of space-shuttle pressure vessels with random batch effects

Technometrics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 332-344

  Feiveson, Alan H ^a   Kulkarni, Pandurang M ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated testing; Bootstrap; Pivotal method; Reliability; Subsampling; Weibull

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SPACE SHUTTLES; STRESS ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RANDOM BATCH EFFECTS;

PRESSURE VESSELS;

EID: 0034322186     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00401706.2000.10485706     Document Type: Article

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