Citation

Hällgren B. Reliab. Eng. 1986; 15(2): 83-94.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(86)90074-0

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Section 2 of this paper presents a simple way to design an availability compliance test terminated at a fixed time. Test parameters are selected by means of supplied nomograms.

Section 3 contains a mathematical analysis of the test type in question with approximations adapted for systems with high availability (>0·95). Up times and down times of the tested system are assumed to be gamma distributed. The analysis explains how the nomograms of Section 2 were calculated.