Title : 
On-Line Reliability Prediction via Dynamic Failure Rate Model
         
        
            Author : 
Toscano, Rosario ; Lyonnet, Patrick
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Lab. de Tribologie et de Dynamique des Syst., CNRS, St.-Etienne
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents a new dynamic reliability approach which is able to take into account the various operating conditions under which the considered system has evolved (past and present). To this end, we propose a differential model of failure rate, combined with the state space representation of the process, as well as a parameterization procedure. A numerical example shows the practical applicability of the proposed approach.
         
        
            Keywords : 
failure analysis; reliability theory; state-space methods; differential model; dynamic failure rate model; online reliability prediction; state space representation; Dynamic reliability models; operating functions; reliability prediction; state-space representation;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TR.2008.927808