Engineering · Industrial & Systems Engineering
A topic within Industrial & Systems Engineering, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
2 works
Waloddi Weibull
Proposes a flexible statistical distribution for describing the strength of materials and time to failure, giving reliability engineering a general model for failure rates that change over time rather than one fixed shape.
United States Department of Defense
Sets out standard failure-rate models for electronic components as a function of stress, temperature and environment, giving reliability engineers a common, auditable method for predicting a whole system's failure rate before it is built.