Reliability & Life Testing Handbook, Volume 1

Each volume is a complete guide and reference to product reliability testing. Encyclopedic in scope, it covers all steps from planning and test selection to test procedure and results analysis. Volume 1 delivers must-have information on a variety of distributions, including the Chi-Square, Exponential, Normal, Lognormal, Weibull, Gamma, and others. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents 1. Objectives, Types, Scheduling and Management of Reliability and Life Testing 2. Reliability and Life Data - Their Acquisition and Processing 3. Five Very Important Analytical Functions in Reliability and Life Testing 4. Failure Frequency, Failure Rate and Reliability Determination from Field Data 5. Chi-Square, Student's t and F Distributions 6. The Exponential Distribution 7. MTBF Confidence Limits, Test Time and OC Curves for the Exponential Case 8. Tests of Comparison of the Mean Life for the Exponential Case 9. The Normal Distribution 10. Confidence Interval on the Mean Life and on the Reliability of Normally Distributed Data 11. The Lognormal Distribution 12. The Weibull Distribution 13. Confidence Limits on the Reliability with Weibull Distributed Times to Failure, as Well as on the Mean Life, Mission Duration, β and η 14. Ranks Not Available in Tables 15. Tests of Comparison for the Weibull Distribution 16. The Gamma Distribution 17. The Beta Distribution 18. Methods of Parameter Estimation 19. Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Test 20. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test 21. Anderson-Darling and Cramer-von Mises Goodness-of-Fit Tests Appendices Index • About the Author