DocumentCode
976434
Title
Bathtub failure rate and upside-down bathtub mean residual life
Author
Mi, Jie
Author_Institution
Dept. of Stat., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA
Volume
44
Issue
3
fYear
1995
fDate
9/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
388
Lastpage
391
Abstract
This paper shows that: (1) the mean residual life (MRL) of a component has an upside-down bathtub-shape if the component has a bathtub-shape failure-rate function, but the converse does not hold; and (2) there is an optimal burn-in policy to maximize the MRL when the underlying lifetime distribution has a bathtub-shape failure rate
Keywords
failure analysis; reliability theory; bathtub failure rate; component mean residual life; failure-rate function; lifetime distribution; optimal burn-in policy; upside-down bathtub mean residual life; Ducts; Humans; Mechanical products; Pattern analysis; Reliability theory; Shape;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/24.406570
Filename
406570
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