Title :
Sequential Testing of Components for System Reliability
Author_Institution :
Systems Division//Aeronautical Research Laboratories//Box 4331, GPO//Melbourne, Vic. 3001 AUSTRALIA.
Abstract :
It is often desirable to construct s-confidence limits for system reliability on the basis of data obtained from `pass-fail´ tests on the components of the system. This paper presents a general method for sequentially testing the components that provides data from which these s-confidence limits can be easily derived. The method is applicable to any s-coherent system for which the reliability function is known. It is a generalization of a scheme given by Winterbottom and Verrall for systems composed of units arranged either in series or parallel.
Keywords :
Bismuth; Random variables; Reliability theory; Sequential analysis; System testing; Voting; Component tests; Confidence limits; Reliability testing; Sequential methods;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1976.5220022