Reliability assessment of explosive material based on penalty tests: An info-gap approach

T Mirer and Y Ben-Haim

Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2010, vol. 224, issue 4, 346-355

Abstract: Abstract A method is developed for experimental assessment of the reliability of a system with a stringent safety requirement: explosive material. The focus is on the analysis and management of both statistical variability of measurements and non-probabilistic uncertainty in probability distributions (distributional uncertainty). Info-gap theory is used to model the distributional uncertainty in the probability distribution function of the threshold for actuation of the explosive material. The quantitative analysis and the qualitative judgements which accompany the certification of safety are studied. A proposition is proven asserting that the info-gap robustness function, for the class of problems examined, is independent of the experimental design over virtually all of its range.

Keywords: safety; reliability; penalty tests; info-gaps; distributional uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1243/1748006XJRR311

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