Reliability demonstration based on accelerated degradation testing for unknown model parameters

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 162-172

  Luo, Wei ^a   Zhang, Chun Hua ^a   Chen, Xun ^a   Tan, Yuan Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerated degradation reliability demonstration test; Accelerated life reliability demonstration test; Equivalent degradation criterion; Reliability demonstration; Step stress accelerated degradation testing

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED DEGRADATION TESTING; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DEVELOPMENT TIME; EQUIVALENT DEGRADATION CRITERION; HIGH-RELIABILITY; MODEL PARAMETERS; RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATION; RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATION TESTS;

DEMONSTRATIONS; RELIABILITY;

TESTING;

EID: 84883388615     PISSN: 1748006X     EISSN: 17480078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1748006X13477324     Document Type: Article

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