Optimum step-stress for temperature accelerated life testing

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 915-924

  Gouno, Evans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Accelerated life test; Activation energy; Arrhenius model; D optimality; Failure rate; Maximum likelihood estimator; Step stress

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACTIVATION ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTS; ARRHENIUS MODELS; FAILURE RATES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATORS;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 37249075006     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.853     Document Type: Article

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