Reliability Evaluation
The activities for reliability evaluation include:
• Compile component and parts lists.
• Perform component stress analyses (i.e., the stresses associated with the intended application).
• Compute failure rates if constant (or probabilities of survival).
• Combine failure rates if constant (or probabilities of survival).
• Compute system reliability.
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These activities are described more fully in later chapters.
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The extent to which any of the above activities can be implemented will depend upon the data available at the particular time. In principle, however, each activity must be carried out as fully as possible whenever a prediction is attempted.
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