Mechanical components mainly work under time-varying operating conditions, causing
considerable complexity and variability to degradation signals and making it difficult to …

Maximization of system reliability is a topic of much concern in the field of engineering
design, telecommunication, aircraft design, plant and factory establishing, producing of …

Modern engineering products usually have complex structures and different functions, which
means that products may have multiple degradation failure mechanisms. At present, the …

Today, in reliability analysis, the most used distribution to describe the behavior of electronic
products under voltage profiles is the Weibull distribution. Nevertheless, the Weibull …

The health state estimation and remaining useful life prediction have always been
challenging when a mechanical system works under time-varying operating conditions …

Reliability optimization is an important and challenging topic both in engineering and
industrial situations as its objective is to design a highly reliable system that operates more …

Degradation models have received much attention in the area of reliability estimation, mostly
because it is possible to obtain robust information about the lifetime of highly reliable …

Today electronic devices require a power supply without any variation or disturbance.
Nevertheless, electrical variations presented in power lines are more frequent and powerful …

Aiming at the problem that the traditional reliability models of mechanical products are used
to predict the reliability of hydraulic automatic transmission and the expected result is …

This article proposes a flexible additive model that adequately describes complex reliability
and survival data. The proposed methodology, referred to as the flexible exponential power …