Chapter 14 Reliability Demonstration and Growth © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Figure 14.1 Degradation analysis diagram.

Figure 14. 2 Solution to Example 14 Figure 14.2 Solution to Example 14.2 using Weibull++ reliability demonstration calculator DRT (reproduced by permission of ReliaSoft).

Figure 14.3 Typical probability ratio sequential test (PRST) plan.

Figure 14. 4 Operating characteristic (OC) curve Figure 14.4 Operating characteristic (OC) curve. Test plan 1:  = 10 %,  = 10% and d = 1.5.

Figure 14. 5 Expected test time (ETT) curve Figure 14.5 Expected test time (ETT) curve. Test plan 1:  = 10 %, = 10% and d = 1.5.

Figure 14.6 Duane reliability growth.

Figure 14.7 Duane plot for Example 14.6.

Figure 14.8 Duane plot for Example 14.7.

Figure 14.9 The M(t) analysis method (Courtesy J. Møltoft).

Figure 14.10 M(t) graph of Table 14.5.