Reliability, Life Testing and the Prediction of Service Lives: For Engineers and Scientists (Springer Series in Statistics)

Requisites.- Elements of Reliability.- Partitions and Selection.- Coherent Systems.- Applicable Life Distributions.- Philosophy, Science, and Sense.- Nonparametric Life Estimators.- Weibull Analysis.- Examine Data, Diagnose and Consult.- Cumulative Damage Distributions.- Analysis of Dispersion.- Damage Processes.- Service Life of Structures.- Strength and Durability.- Maintenance of Systems.- Mathematical Appendix.