SEQUENTIAL RELIABILITY TESTS APPLIED TO CHECK OUT EQUIPMENT

Abstract

Efforts were directed toward discussing the need for reliability test of mission support aero space ground equipment (AGE) such as checkout equipment. The discussions are aimed primarily at the sequential probability ratio (SPR) test for mean time between failure (termed T in this paper) determination when the distribution of failures can be assumed exponential. Other distributions are only mentioned. No specific check out equipment is considered. Summary tables and charts are included in several areas in the hope that they will prove useful in practice for selecting an acceptable SPR test. The following subjects are discussed: considerations in setting acceptable test risks, conditions under which SPR tests are appropriate, the theory of SPR tests and the resulting relationships used in SPR tests of T, and the expected qualitative variations in an SPR test when different test parameters are varied.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0419490

Entities

People

  • Ben N. Theall

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Checkout Equipment
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Electronic Components
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Handbooks
  • Life Tests
  • Military Operations
  • Production
  • Reliability
  • Test Facilities
  • United States

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Software Engineering
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris