• DocumentCode
    1386486
  • Title

    Some thought-experiments in reliability

  • Author

    Gottfried, Paul

  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    6/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    131
  • Lastpage
    132
  • Abstract
    Five thought-experiments are presented which address the relationships between life distributions and physical processes. These relationships are sources of basic misconceptions in the reliability literature
  • Keywords
    reliability; life distributions; physical processes; reliability; thought-experiments; Accidents; Aging; Cats; Hazards; Humans; Probability; Reliability engineering; Silver; Springs; Stress;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/24.87110
  • Filename
    87110