THE PREDICTION OF VERY-LOW EED FIRING PROBABILITIES

Abstract

Electro-explosive device functioning probability levels needed for estimating weapon safety and reliability cannot be measured exactly. Existing interpretations of All-Fire and No-Fire levels often are seriously in error or even invalid. Practical procedures for reducing errors in estimating extreme functioning probability levels are presented: proper sampling, proper instrumentation, optimization of data collection procedures, and selection of proper statistical tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 04, 1963
Accession Number
AD0426466

Entities

People

  • I. Kabik
  • J. N. Ayres
  • L. D. Hampton

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Ammunition
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Engineering
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosives
  • Information Science
  • Instrumentation
  • Munitions
  • New Mexico
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Probability
  • Reliability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Statistical inference.