Abstract
Degradation testing is an important technique for assessing life time information of complex systems and highly reliable products. Motivated by fatigue crack growth (FCG) data and our previous study, this paper develops a novel degradation modeling approach, in which degradation is represented by an independent increment process with linear mean and general quadratic variance functions of test time or transformed test time if necessary. Based on the constructed degradation model, closed-form expressions of failure time distribution (FTD) and its percentiles can be straightforwardly derived and calculated. A one-stage method is developed to estimate model parameters and FTD. Simulation studies are conducted to validate the proposed approach, and the results illustrate that the approach can provide reasonable estimates even for small sample size situations. Finally, the method is verified by the FCG data set given as the motivating example, and the results show that it can be considered as an effective degradation modeling approach compared with the multivariate normal model and graphic approach.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 467-483 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing |
Volume | 70-71 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 2016 |
Funding
The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the editor for their critical and constructive comments on this manuscript. This study was co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 11202011 ), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant no. YWK13HK11 ), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant no. 3154034 ), and National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant no. 2012CB720000 ).
Keywords
- Degradation test
- Failure time distribution
- Independent increment process
- One-stage parameter estimation
- Quadratic variance function
- Reliability analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Signal Processing
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications