Design of accelerated life testing plans under multiple stresses

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 468-478

  Zhu, Yada ^a   Elsayed, Elsayed A ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

accelerated life testing; Latin hypercube; multiple stresses; test plan; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL DESIGNS; LATIN HYPERCUBE; MULTIPLE STRESS; NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; TEST PLAN;

RELIABILITY THEORY; TESTING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84882601688     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.21545     Document Type: Article

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