Title :
Some Bounds for the Reliability of a System With Specified Failure Rate Characteristics
Author :
Kinberg, Yoram ; Shlifer, E.
Author_Institution :
Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University, New York, N.Y.; 140 Riverside Drive, 2-H, New York, N.Y. 10024.
Abstract :
When bounds are sought for the reliability of a system, all available information is applied, e.g., moments of the life distribution (mainly the first moment), life percentiles obtained experimentally, and general data. Barlow et al. [1] and Epstein [2] presented bounds for a monotone-increasing or decreasing failure rate, and bounded the reliability by referring to a system with a constant failure rate. In this paper, the reliability is bounded by utilizing additional information on the behavior of the failure rate as a function of age.
Keywords :
Costs; Density functional theory; Engineering management; Random variables; Reliability engineering; Technology management;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1970.5216443
