Reliability HotWire is a monthly eMagazine by ReliaSoft providing information and tips on how to best improve your reliability practices and get the most out of ReliaSoft’s tools for reliability and life data analysis.
Reliability Test Design: Linking Fatigue and Reliability
Reliability and durability fit together in product validation testing. Often, the product’s life requirement is being able to withstand loading over a specified duration with reliability and confidence requirements. Durability, life data and reliability analyses can help engineers answer critical questions like how long to test and how many parts to test in order to meet these life requirements. In this article, we discuss the important link between testing to prove durability and testing to demonstrate reliability.
For full article, view: Reliability Hotwire – Issue 197 July 2017