Accelerated Testing and Validation (Paperback)

Preface
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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