Targeted testing methods for reliability validation of components and systems
by Prabhu Soundappan, Efstratios Nikolaidis, Balaji Dheenadayalan
International Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS), Vol. 4, No. 1, 2010

Abstract: Methods for designing targeted tests for reliability validation of structures obtained from reliability-based design are presented. These methods optimise the test parameters to minimise the variance in the estimated reliability (or equivalently the failure probability) estimated from the tests. The tests are designed using information from analytical models used in reliability-based design. Both analytical tests, in which very detailed models are used as reference, and physical tests can be designed using the methods presented. The methods are demonstrated on examples and their robustness to errors in the analytical models used to design the tests is assessed.

Online publication date: Mon, 30-Nov-2009

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