How Stress Variance in the Automotive Environment will Affect a 'True' Value of the Reliability Demonstrated by Accelerated Testing

SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Electronic and Electrical Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 552-559

  Kleyner, Andre ^a  

^a Delphi Automotive ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accelerated testing; population reliability; reliability demonstration; sample size; stress variable; success based testing; test to field correlation; user severity; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

DEMONSTRATIONS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ACCELERATED TESTING; RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATION; SAMPLE SIZES; STRESS VARIABLES; USER SEVERITY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84903397935     PISSN: 19464614     EISSN: 19464622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2014-01-0722     Document Type: Article

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