Title :
Fuzzy design for fixed-number life tests
Author :
Kanagawa, Akihiro ; Ohta, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng., Osaka Prefectural Univ., Japan
fDate :
8/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present a fuzzy design procedure for fixed-number life tests, in which the producer and consumer risks are treated as fuzzy numbers. The procedure enables one to balance both risks based on a membership function
Keywords :
fuzzy set theory; life testing; reliability theory; consumer risks; fixed-number life tests; fuzzy design procedure; fuzzy numbers; fuzzy set theory; membership function; producer risks; reliability; Design methodology; Exponential distribution; Fuzzy set theory; Life testing; Risk analysis; Sampling methods; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
