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ACCELERATED TESTING AND VALIDATION
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By
Alex Porter, Engineering Development Manager, Entela Engineering & Testing Labs, MI, USA

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Audience
Engineers in testing, verification, validation, and reliability, engineering managers, engineering technicians, technological product development sector, students

Contents
Preface What?s on the CD-ROM? Chapter 1: The Time Value of Information Historical Business Models and the Information Needed Working Group Structure (Entrepreneur) Modern Business Models and the Information Needed Chapter 2: Precise But Useless Data Accurate But Not Beneficial Precise Test Chapter 3: What Not To Know Scenario One: A key physical property is wrong Scenario Two: A primary failure mode of a product Scenario Three: The Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) Chapter 4: Accelerated Testing Catelog TOOL NAME: Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) TOOL NAME: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) TOOL NAME: Fully Censored Testing TOOL NAME: Step Stress Testing TOOL NAME: Accelerated Reliability TOOL NAME: Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) TOOL NAME: Failure Mode Verification Test (FMVT) TOOL NAME: Computer Modeling Chapter 5: Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) Basic DFMEA Hypothesis and the DFMEA Chapter 6: Fully Censored Testing Representative Homogeneous When to Use It? Chapter 7: Step Stress Testing Life Test Stresses and Levels Stepping Magnitude Business Style Chapter 8: Trading Stress for Time Basic Principles Description of Accelerated Reliability Method Single Variable Model Two-Variable Model Three-Variable Model Chapter 9: Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) A Typical HALT Hot Temperature Steps Cold Temperature Steps Ramp Rates Vibration Combined Run Business Structures Chapter 10: Failure Mode Verification Testing (FMVT) Development FMVT More About Stress More About Failures More About Setup and Execution More on Data Analysis Comparison FMVT FMVT Life Prediction – Equivalent Wear and Cycle Counting FMVT Warranty More on Vibration Reliability and Design Maturity Business Considerations Chapter 11: Computer and Math Modeling Math Models Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Boundary Conditions and Assumptions Business Considerations Chapter 12: Hybrid Testing Fully Coupled and Partially Coupled Hybrid Tests The Field as a Test Method Chapter 13: Validation Synthesis Model The Primary Question Timing Efficiency Chapter 14: Downspout Generator Example Downspout Generator (DGS) Basic Numbers Research (Day 0-30) Feasibility (Day 30-60) Development/Design (Day 60-150) Design Validation (Day 150-180) Production Validation (Day 180-210) Production (Day 210-1095) About the Author Index

Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 244 pages, publication date: JUN-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7653-3
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7653-1
Imprint: NEWNES
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Last update: 13 Aug 2008
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