Failure Rate - A Unified Approach.
Abstract
Aging, of biological and mechanical systems, is well described as 'deterioration of the power to withstand destruction.' The failure rate concept is the mathematical way of describing aging. Failure rates have been defined for discrete and continuous time and used extensively, particularly in actuarial science and reliability. This paper assumes an arbitrary scale on which an object encounters stress and develops a theory of failure rate with respect to 'stress time' in analogy with the discrete and continuous time cases.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 15, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA013339
Entities
People
- Lawrence Lee Jr.
- W. A. Thompson Jr.
Organizations
- University of Missouri