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  • Engineering
  • Statistics
  • Reliability Engineering

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  • Reliability Demonstration Tests (RDT) are vital for verifying product reliability against specified thresholds.
  • Existing RDT plans cover various testing types and system structures, but lack focus on load-sharing systems.
  • Load-sharing systems require specific reliability assessment due to component interdependence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel RDT method tailored for two types of load-sharing systems.
  • To address the gap in RDT planning for load-sharing systems.
  • To establish RDT plans based on system Mean Time To Failure (MTTF).

Main Methods:

  • Developed a demonstration method for load-sharing systems with exponential and Weibull component distributions.
  • Defined system MTTF as the sum of mean time between successive component failures.
  • Introduced generalized test statistics for component failure distributions.

Main Results:

  • Established RDT plans for two specific load-sharing system types.
  • The proposed method provides a framework for demonstrating reliability of these systems.
  • The approach is grounded in established assumptions for load-sharing systems.

Conclusions:

  • The study successfully developed RDT plans for load-sharing systems under exponential and Weibull distributions.
  • This work contributes a much-needed methodology for reliability assessment of complex load-sharing systems.
  • The findings facilitate more accurate reliability verification in production settings for these systems.