Implementation of a Reliability Shorthand on the TI-59 Handheld Calculator.

Abstract

It is shown how a reliability shorthand can be implemented on a handheld calculator. Assuming constant failure rates, basic structures are used to show how the shorthand can be applied. Several examples are worked out that show, how, with component failure rates as input, a handheld calculator can be used to compute the reliability of a system. Two TI-59 programs are provided as a computational aid.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123811

Entities

People

  • Hans-eberhard Peters

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Calculators
  • California
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Convolution
  • Distribution Functions
  • Notation
  • Operations Research
  • Personal Computers
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Survival

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Theoretical Analysis.