The Total Time on Test Concept and Its Use in Reliability Theory

Bo Bergman and Bengt Klefsjö
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Bo Bergman: Linköping Institute of Technology, Linköping, Sweden and Saab-Scania AB, Linköping, Sweden
Bengt Klefsjö: University of Luleå, Luleå, Sweden

Operations Research, 1984, vol. 32, issue 3, 596-606

Abstract: More than 30 years ago, Epstein and Sobel introduced the Total Time on Test (TTT-) concept. During the last 10 years different generalizations of this concept have been defined and studied, e.g., the TTT-transform and the TTT-plot; a basic paper was presented by Barlow and Campo in 1975. Many of these generalizations have proven to be very useful in different areas of reliability, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. The purpose of this expository paper is to present some of these generalizations and illustrate their value.

Keywords: 721; the; TTT-concept; and; its; use; in; reliability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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