Fuzzy Reliability Design for the Interference Articulation of a Roller Shaft

With regard to function, the strengths for interference articulation of a roller shaft formed a series system. As the three strength reliabilities conditioned each other, there was a problem for the system reliability to apportion rationally. In fact, there was a transition from safety to deactivation. The state of structure was fuzziness which was in both safety and non-safety states. Therefore the reliability was a fuzzy event which considered the randomness for some design parameters and the fuzziness for the thresholds between generalized strength safety and deactivation. The mathematical model of fuzzy reliability design for the interference articulation of the roller shaft was presented. Eight design examples were calculated. ``