Step-Stress Accelerated Degradation Analysis for Highly Reliable Products
Step-Stress Accelerated Degradation Analysis for Highly Reliable Products
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DOI:
10.1080/00224065.2000.11979997
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发表时间:
2000-07
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
S. Tseng;Zhi-Chih Wen
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作者:
S. Tseng;Zhi-Chih Wen
Collecting accelerated degradation test (ADT) data can provide useful lifetime information for highly reliable products if there exists a product quality characteristic whose degradation over time can be related to reliability. However, conducting a constant-stress ADT is very costly. This is obviously not applicable for assessing the lifetime of a newly developed product because typically only a few test samples (prototypes) are available. To overcome this difficulty, we propose a step-stress accelerated degradation test (SSADT) in this paper. A case study of light emitting diodes data is used to illustrate the proposed procedure. It is seen that SSADT has several advantages over a constant-stress ADT. SSADT not only reduces the experimental cost significantly, but also provides the reliability analysts an efficient tool to assess the lifetime distribution of highly reliable products.