Reliability testing, simple experiment with candles 1

RELIABILITY TESTING
Reference: Lewis, ch.05

Using non parametric method for ungrouped data

The results consist of a series of failure times t1, t2, , tN for the N units in the tests

We estimated the reliability at ti with formula : ( ) = 1
The number of units surviving at ti is just = then correspondingly the CDF is

( ) = 1 ( ) =

( )( )
We have for PDF formulation is () = +1 ; < < +1 and () =
+1
1
(+1 )(+1)
; < < +1
We may also estimate the failure rate since f(t) is discontinuous, and () =
1
(+1 )(+1)
; < < +1
The estimate of MTTF or variance of the failure distribution for ungrouped data is =
1

=1

Table 5.3 Ungrouped Data Computation

i ti ti+1 - ti R(ti) f(t) (t)

0 0 0,41 1 0,213 0,213
1 0,41 0,58 0,9 0,588 0,658
2 0,58 0,75 0,8 0,588 0,735
3 0,75 0,83 0,7 1,25 1,785
4 0,83 1 0,6 0,588 0,98
5 1 1,08 0,5 1,25 2,5
6 1,08 1,17 0,4 1,11 2,78
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7 1,17 1,25 0,3 1,25 4,17

8 1,25 1,35 0,2 1 5
9 1,35 - 0,1 - -