Optimum Gun Tube Safe-Life

Abstract

A method for determining an optimum safe-life is presented. This life is optimal in the sense that the combined expected costs associated with catastrophic failure and total life inventory are a minimum. An associated question that is addressed is that of determining the optimum number of tubes to be life-tested. This decision is resolved by minimizing the combined cost of testing and the monetary penalty of imperfect information.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1967
Accession Number
ADA062573

Entities

People

  • George Schlenker
  • Stuart Olson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Generators
  • Graphs
  • Guns
  • Histograms
  • Information Science
  • Intervals
  • Inventory
  • Normality
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Data
  • Statistics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis