Design of statistically and energy-efficient accelerated life testing experiments

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1031-1049

  Zhang, Dan ^a   Liao, Haitao ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life testing; energy consumption; optimum experimental design

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EQUIPMENT TESTING; EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICS; TESTING;

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING; COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; FAILURE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPTIMUM EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84903536468     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2013.876127     Document Type: Article

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