Use of accelerated life tests on transmission belts for predicting product life, identifying better designs, materials and suppliers

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 101-105

  Jayatilleka, Sarath ^a   Okogbaa, Geoffrey ^b  

^a Maytag Appliances   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; Transmission belts; Tukey; Weibull

Indexed keywords

BELTS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); PERFORMANCE; PRODUCT DESIGN; SERVICE LIFE; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; TRANSMISSION BELTS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0037259266     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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