Reliability assessment of innovative designs in automotive industry

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 367-379

  Morin, Guillaume ^a   Cardona, Jean Marc ^a   Prince, Olivier ^a   Pendola, Maurice ^b   Perrin, Frederic ^b  

^a RENAULT   (France)

^b now at Phimeca Engineering   (France)

Author keywords

Exhaust manifold; Field reliability; Innovation; Polynomial chaos; Reliability based design; Stress strength

Indexed keywords

CAR MANUFACTURERS; EXHAUST MANIFOLD; FIELD RELIABILITY; INNOVATIVE DESIGN; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MECHANICAL COMPONENTS; NEW CONCEPT; NEW PRODUCT; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN; SECOND-ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS;

AUTOMOBILE ENGINE MANIFOLDS; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN;

EID: 70449672625     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470701388736     Document Type: Article

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