Determination of burn‐in parameters and residual life for highly reliable products

Today, many products are designed and manufactured to function for a long period of time before they fail. Determining product reliability is a great challenge to manufacturers of highly reliable products with only a relatively short period of time available for internal life testing. In particular, it may be difficult to determine optimal burn‐in parameters and characterize the residual life distribution. A promising alternative is to use data on a quality characteristic (QC) whose degradation over time can be related to product failure. Typically, product failure corresponds to the first passage time of the degradation path beyond a critical value. If degradation paths can be modeled properly, one can predict failure time and determine the life distribution without actually observing failures. In this paper, we first use a Wiener process to describe the continuous degradation path of the quality characteristic of the product. A Wiener process allows nonconstant variance and nonzero correlation among data collected at different time points. We propose a decision rule for classifying a unit as normal or weak, and give an economic model for determining the optimal termination time and other parameters of a burn‐in test. Next, we propose a method for assessing the product's lifetime distribution of the passed units. The proposed methodologies are all based only on the product's initial observed degradation data. Finally, an example of an electronic product, namely contact image scanner (CIS), is used to illustrate the proposed procedure. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003     

Estimating failure time distribution and its parameters based on intermediate data from a Wiener degradation model

Instead of measuring a Wiener degradation or performance process at predetermined time points to track degradation or performance of a product for estimating its lifetime, we propose to obtain the first‐passage times of the process over certain nonfailure thresholds. Based on only these intermediate data, we obtain the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator and uniformly most accurate confidence interval for the mean lifetime. For estimating the lifetime distribution function, we propose a modified maximum likelihood estimator and a new estimator and prove that, by increasing the sample size of the intermediate data, these estimators and the above‐mentioned estimator of the mean lifetime can achieve the same levels of accuracy as the estimators assuming one has failure times. Thus, our method of using only intermediate data is useful for highly reliable products when their failure times are difficult to obtain. Furthermore, we show that the proposed new estimator of the lifetime distribution function is more accurate than the standard and modified maximum likelihood estimators. We also obtain approximate confidence intervals for the lifetime distribution function and its percentiles. Finally, we use light‐emitting diodes as an example to illustrate our method and demonstrate how to validate the Wiener assumption during the testing. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008     

液相色谱-质谱法测定2-氯乙烯胂酸

研究了用液相色谱-质谱两种电离技术测定路易氏剂1的降解产物2-氯乙烯胂酸,比较了在不同流动相中该化合物的响应情况,并且利用源内CID技术获得了丰富质谱碎片,对所鉴定的碎片进行了解释,用选择离子检测得到该化合物的检测限在APCI电离技术中为9ng,在ESI电离技术中为4ng．     

基于GA-PSO的目标分配问题研究

防空作战中的目标分配问题属于NP完全问题,在综合考虑火力单元作战效能和防御效能的基础上,引入火力单元综合有利度,建立了一种用于大规模多火力单元对抗多轮次目标的静态目标分配模型,给出了基于GA因子的改进PSO算法,并将算法应用于目标分配模型的求解,通过VC 6.0编程和计算机仿真验证了模型的可行性和算法的有效性.     

改进类电磁算法在武器目标分配问题中的应用

通过基于级数的粒子编码变换方法,将武器目标分配问题的约束条件进行了化简.对原始类电磁算法,在种群初始化、局部搜索、合力计算以及粒子移动等各步骤对其进行改造,使之适应武器目标分配问题的整数解空间.最后通过数值实验验证了该改造后算法解决武器目标分配问题的有效性.     

元器件性能退化信息的系统性能可靠性评估

性能可靠性方法为解决现代工程实际中的高可靠、长寿命、小子样产品的可靠性建模分析提供了途径.目前的性能可靠性研究主要是针对元器件开展的,对系统性能可靠性进行研究时通常需要将其看作一个元器件,需要得到系统的性能退化数据,在某些情况下,得到系统的性能退化数据比较困难.实际上,由于元器件的性能退化导致系统性能的变化,因而可以利...     

Identification of Pu and U isotopic composition and its applications in environmental and CBRN research

This paper describes the most common presently used methods for detecting uranium and plutonium isotopes after their introduction to environment. Known isotope ratios of U and Pu in different nuclear events are important tool for characterizing the sources of nuclear material. Detection techniques both in field and in laboratory are presented, as well as different models that can be used for identifying the origin and age of the nuclear material. Identification of the source of nuclear material in environmental samples is needed for estimating the quality and quantity of the nuclear hazard. This information is essential in risk assessment and crisis management, in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) research after e.g. a terrorist attack, in radioecology and environmental radioactivity research.     

基于模糊均值聚类算法的图像分割

将图像直方图统计特性引入到FCM聚类算法的目标函数中,用混合粒子群优化算法对目标函数进行全局最优求解,提高了图像分割的运算速度。     

N、P源对微生物法处理石油烃效果的影响

在微生物法处理石油烃的过程中,微生物对N、P源的供给非常敏感,不同的微生物对不同的N、P源的生物利用度是不相同的,N、P源的选择对降解效果有较大影响,所以有必要对最佳的N、P源进行筛选。对N、P源的逸择和加入量对降解效果的影响进行了研究,确定了最佳的N、P源分别为(NH4)2SO4、KH2PO4。在(NH4)2SO4、KH2PO4的质量浓度分别为100mg／L和60mg／L时,废水中石油烃的去除率最高。     

改进的接触算法及其在光滑粒子流体动力学中的应用

采用以黎曼解描述粒子间相互作用的接触算法,模拟一维情况下包含间断的流场。在弱间断的条件下,采用弱波近似的黎曼解来描述粒子间的相互作用;在强间断的条件下,则引入非迭代黎曼解来描述粒子间的相互作用。并引入Taylor展开思想,提高了接触算法在自由边界的计算精度。该算法无需引入人为粘性,程序结构简洁。数值计算表明,改进后的接触算法能很好地描述强间断,并有效改善了原始接触算法在自由面的计算缺陷。