A note on a difficulty inherent in estimating reliability from stress–strength relationships

Bernard Harris and Andrew P. Soms

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1983, vol. 30, issue 4, 659-663

Abstract: This note calls attention to a difficulty which arises frequently in the application of stress‐strength methods in reliability theory. This difficulty has led to unanticipated catastrophic failures in a number of applications.

Date: 1983
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