Optimum multiple-stress-type accelerated life testing plans based on proportional odds model with simple step-stress loading

Journal Europeen des Systemes Automatises

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 745-762

  Elsayed, Elsayed A ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; ALT plans; Cumulative exposure model; Proportional odds model; Simple step stress loading

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURE MODELS; PROPORTIONAL ODDS MODELS; SIMPLE STEP-STRESS LOADING;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548017445     PISSN: 12696935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/jesa.40.745-762     Document Type: Article

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