Comparison between constant‐stress and step‐stress accelerated life tests under Time Constraint

By running life tests at higher stress levels than normal operating conditions, accelerated life testing (ALT) quickly yields information on the lifetime distribution of a test unit. The lifetime at the design stress is then estimated through extrapolation using a regression model. In constant‐stress testing, a unit is tested at a fixed stress level until failure or the termination time point of test, whereas step‐stress testing allows the experimenter to gradually increase the stress levels at some prefixed time points during the test. In this work, the optimal k‐level constant‐stress and step‐stress ALTs are compared for the exponential failure data under complete sampling and Type‐I censoring. The objective is to quantify the advantage of using the step‐stress testing relative to the constant‐stress one. Assuming a log‐linear life–stress relationship with the cumulative exposure model for the effect of changing stress in step‐stress testing, the optimal design points are determined under C/D/A‐optimality criteria. The efficiency of step‐stress testing to constant‐stress one is then discussed in terms of the ratio of optimal objective functions based on the information matrix. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 00: 000–000, 2013     

A model for step‐stress accelerated life testing

Modern technology is producing high reliability products. Life testing for such products under normal use condition takes a lot of time to obtain a reasonable number of failures. In this situation a step‐stress procedure is preferred for accelerated life testing. In this paper we assume a Weibull and Lognormal model whose scale parameter depends upon the present level as well as the age at the entry in the present stress level. On the basis of that we propose a parametric model to the life distribution for step‐stress testing and suggest a suitable design to estimate the parameters involved in the model. A simulation study has been done by the proposed model based on maximum likelihood estimation. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003     

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     

一种无人战斗机系统使用保障费用分析方法

基于无人战斗机系统在使用保障上的特点,通过对有人战斗机使用保障费用模型进行合理改造,使其能适用于无人战斗机的使用保障费用分析。经过改造的模型具有结构清晰、概念明确的特点。适合在飞机总体设计阶段用于全寿命周期的费用估算以及飞机的费效分析和综合优化设计。通过与有人战斗机的使用保障费用进行对比计算表明,无人战斗机系统的使用保障费用具有明显的经济优势。     

压制火控系统中有关最大射程角的应用探讨

通过对实际应用中,压制火控系统射击诸元中有关最大射程角的具体使用进行了分析,提出了在地面压制武器系统外弹道中距离-射角函数可能出现多个极点的观点,并给出了最大射程角具体计算方法,在火控系统的工程实践中提高了武器系统的性能。     

复合成本计算中合理设定复合元数问题研究

从合理性和科学性角度对复合成本计算过程中复合元数的设定进行了评价。运用模糊数学方法建立了评价矩阵,通过模糊合成使评价结果更加切合实际,解决了企业成本管理中复合元数判断的模糊性和不确定性问题,避免了复合成本计算过程中因复合元数设定不经济或简单化而出现的功能过剩或功能不足的现象出现。     

预报风强度对火箭最大气动载荷精度影响及建模分析

针对不同预报风强度的精度以及其对应的最大气动载荷预报值精度的研究文献极少。以某地区实况风为基准,分别对不同预报风强度的精度以及其对应的最大气动载荷预报值精度特征进行了分析,并利用多元线性回归方法建立了订正模型,结果表明在预报日数第1～11天,预报风强度越大,预报风精度及其对应的最大气动载荷预报值精度越高;利用多元线性回归方法可提高最大气动载荷预报值精度,且预报风强度越小,最大气动载荷预报精度提高越明显。这些发现在火箭发射前的飞行保障及安全决策方面具有参考价值。     

基于神经网络的特征结构提取

本文在详细讨论特征结构提取问题的能量函数表示的基础上,通过对该能量函数表示的适当变换和整理,高阶关联非线性连续时间神经网络被引入到特征结构的提取问题中。这种方法直观、明了,它将所要提取的特征结构与网络稳定时的输出直接对应起来,可对特征结构进行自适应跟踪、估计,这为特征结构的提取提出了一个新的方法。     

带有先验分布的Bayes统计抽样方案费用评价模型

以往在评价和比较几个统计抽样方案时,多从比较分析两种风险率入手,由于这种方法的局限性,往往不能得出满意的结论。本文利用Bayes方法,在给出先验分布及有关损失函数的条件下,从各种抽样方案的平均总损失入手比较几个可选方案的优良性。本文提供的与二项分布相对应的算法具有一般意义。示例所得结果也是令人满意的。     

分段线性凸费用网络流的两个算法

本文讨论了分段线性凸费用网络流问题,推广了线性费用网络流中的负回路方法和最小费用路方法,从而得到了求分段线性凸费用网络的最小费用流的两个算法。