ACCELERATED TESTING : a practitioner's guide to accelerated and reliability testing.

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Cover Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 Introduction Purpose of Accelerated Testing Design Life Statistical Sample Size Determination Tolerances in Accelerated Testing Financial Considerations Response from Finance Response from Engineering Response from Manufaturing Summary CHAPTER 2 Probability Fundamentals Sampling Probability Density Function Cumulative Distribution Function Reliability Function Hazard Function Expectation Summary CHAPTER 3 Distributions Continuous Modeling Distributions Weibull Distribution Normal Distribution Lognormal Distribution Exponential Distribution Discrete Modeling Distributions Poisson Distribution Binomial Distribution Hypergeometric Distribution Geometric Distribution Identifying the Correct Discrete Distribution Sampling Distributions Chi-Square Distribution t -Distribution F -Distribution Bayes’ Theorem Summary CHAPTER 4 Parameter Estimation Maximum Likelihood Estimation Probability Plotting Hazard Plotting Exponential Distribution Maximum Likelihood Estimation Hazard Plotting Probability Plotting Normal Distribution Maximum Likelihood Estimation Hazard Plotting Probability Plotting Lognormal Distribution Weibull Distribution Maximum Likelihood Estimation Hazard Plotting Probability Plotting Nonparametric Confidence Intervals Summary CHAPTER 5 Accelerated Test Plans Mean Time to Fail Test Plan Problems Zero-Failure Testing Bogey Testing Bayesian Testing Effect of the Shape Parameter Estimating the Shape Parameter Determining Test Parameters Guidelines for Zero-Failure Test Planning Sequential Testing Pass-Fail Testing Exponential Distribution Weibull Distribution Randomization of Load Cycles Reliability Growth Reliability Growth Process Reliability Growth Models Duane Model AMSAA Model Summary CHAPTER 6 Accelerated Testing Models Linear Acceleration Field Correlation Arrhenius Model Eyring Model Voltage Models Mechanical Crack Growth Degradation Testing Qualitative Tests Step-Stress Testing Elephant Tests HALT and HASS Summary CHAPTER 7 Environmental Stress Screening Stress Screening Theory Product Reliability Equation What Is ESS? Evolution of ESS Misconceptions about ESS Types of Environmental Stress Temperature Cycling Random Vibration High-Temperature Burn-In Electrical Stress Thermal Shock Sine Vibration, Fixed Frequency Low-Temperature Screen Sine Vibration, Swept Frequency Combined Environment Advantages of Temperature Cycling Levels of Screen Complexity Failure Analysis Case Histories Analogic Corporation Bendix Corporation Hewlett-Packard (HP) Implementing an ESS Program Equipment Burn-In Optimization Summary CHAPTER 8 Test Equipment Methods and Applications Simulation versus Stimulation Simulation Application Typical Test Types Defining the Real World Stimulation Application Typical Test Types Types of Stresses Temperature Steady State Temperature Cycling Thermal Shock Vibration Analysis Tools Mechanical and Pneumatic Loose Cargo Testing Cyclic Testing Electrodynamic Hydraulic Mechanical Shock Electrical Stress Combined Environments Other Types of Stress Summary Appendix A: Statistical Tables Appendix B: Government Documents Appendix C: Glossary Appendix D: List of Acronyms Bibliography About the Authors Index