Research Papers
Publications in Reliability Engineering & Related Disciplines by ReliaSoft's R&D Team Members

This page presents a summary of research papers and presentations that have been authored or co-authored by ReliaSoft R&D personnel and affiliated consultants. When applicable, the document is available for download in *.pdf format.
2008
"Reliability Evaluation and Application for Systems with Different Phases" by Huairui Guo, Adamantios Mettas and Arai Monteforte (ReliaSoft). Presented at RAMS (January 28-31, in Las Vegas, NV). NEW
"Reliability from Design Inception to Product Retirement" by Duane Dietrich (ReliaSoft). Presented at RAMS (January 28-31, in Las Vegas, NV). NEW 
"Lessons Learned for Effective FMEAs" by Carl Carlson (ReliaSoft). Presented at RAMS (January 28-31, in Las Vegas, NV). NEW
"On Determining Sample Size and Testing Duration of Repairable System Test" by Huairui Guo (ReliaSoft) and Rong Pan (Arizona State University). Presented at RAMS (January 28-31, in Las Vegas, NV). NEW
2007
"D-Optimal Reliability Test Design for Two-Stress Accelerated Life Tests" by Huairui Guo (ReliaSoft) and Rong Pan (Department of Industrial Engineering, ASU). Presented at IEEM (December 2-5, 2007 in Singapore).
"Optimal Design of Reliability Tests for Multiple Stresses" by Rong Pan (Department of Industrial Engineering, ASU) and Huairui Guo (ReliaSoft). Presentation at INFORMS (November 3-7, 2007 in Seattle, WA).
"Time-Varying Multi-Stress ALT for Modeling Life of Outdoor Optical Products" by Chung F. Lam (Corning Cable Systems), Huairui Guo (ReliaSoft) and Lance Larson (ReliaSoft). Presented at RAMS (January 22-25, 2007 in Orlando, FL).
"Improved Reliability Using Accelerated Degradation & Design of Experiments" by Huairui Guo and Adamantios Mettas. Presented at RAMS (January 22-25, 2007 in Orlando, FL).
"Lessons Learned for Effective FMEAs" by Carl S. Carlson. Presented at RAMS (January 22-25, 2007 in Orlando, FL).
2006
"Reliability from Product Design Inception to Product Retirement" by Duane L. Dietrich. Presented at RAMS (January 23-26, 2006 in Newport Beach, CA).
"Practical Methods for Modeling Repairable Systems with Time Trends and Repair Effects" by Huairui Guo, Wenbiao Zhao and Adamantios Mettas. Presented at RAMS (January 23-26, 2006 in Newport Beach, CA).
"Lessons Learned for Effective FMEAs" by Carl S. Carlson. Presented at RAMS (January 23-26, 2006 in Newport Beach, CA).
2005
"Studies and Methods for Improving the Effectiveness of Reliability Tasks" by Larry H. Crow. Presented at RAMS (January 24-27, 2005 in Alexandria, VA).
"Reliability Predictions Based on Customer Usage Stress Profiles" by Adamantios Mettas. Presented at RAMS (January 24-27, 2005 in Alexandria, VA).
"Modeling and Analysis of Repairable Systems with General Repair" by Adamantios Mettas and Wenbiao Zhao. Presented at RAMS (January 24-27, 2005 in Alexandria, VA).
"Reliability Prediction using Multivariate Degradation Data" by Di Xu (American Express) and Wenbiao Zhao (ReliaSoft). Presented at RAMS (January 24-27, 2005 in Alexandria, VA).
2004
"Reliability Block Diagram Simulation Techniques Applied to the IEEE Std. 493 Standard Network" by W. Wang (GE), J. Loman (GE), R. Arno (RAC), P. Vassiliou (ReliaSoft), E. Furlong (GE) and D. Ogden (ReliaSoft). IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications, May/June 2004.
"Application of Quantitative Accelerated Life Models on Load Sharing Redundancy" by Adamantios Mettas and Pantelis Vassiliou.
"An Accelerated Life Testing Model Involving Performance Degradation" by Wenbiao Zhao (ReliaSoft) and E.A. Elsayed (Rutgers University).
"An Extended Reliability Growth Model For Managing And Assessing Corrective Actions" by Larry H. Crow.  [updated after the Symposium to correct typos]
"Reliability Importance of Components in a Complex System" by Wendai Wang (GE Global Research Center), Jim Loman (GE Global Research Center) and Pantelis Vassiliou (ReliaSoft).
2002
"Modeling and Analysis of Time-Dependent Stress Accelerated Life Data" by Adamantios Mettas and Pantelis Vassiliou. Presented at RAMS (January 28-31, 2002 in Seattle, WA).
"Intellectual Capital: Using the Web for Knowledge Management and Data Utilization in Reliability Engineering" [4,566 KB] by Adamantios Mettas and David Rock. Presented at RAMS (January 28-31, 2002 in Seattle, WA).
 "Understanding Accelerated Life-Testing Analysis." Tutorial by Pantelis Vassiliou and Adamantios Mettas RAMS (January 28-31, 2002 in Seattle, WA).
2001
"Determination & Interpretation of Activation Energy Using Accelerated-Test Data" by David Groebel, Adamantios Mettas, and Dr. Feng-Bin Sun (Principal Reliability Engineer, Quantum Corporation). Presented at RAMS (January 22-25, 2001 in Philadelphia, PA).
"System Reliability Analysis: The Advantages of Using Analytic Methods to Analyze Non-Repairable Systems" by Adamantios Mettas and Marios Savva. Presented at RAMS (January 22-25, 2001 in Philadelphia, PA)
"Warranty Calculations for Missiles with Only Current-Status Data, Using Bayesian Methods" by Dr. David Olwell (Director of ReliaSoft Professional Services) and Anthony Sorrell (Naval Postgraduate School). Presented at RAMS (January 22-25, 2001 in Philadelphia, PA).
"Reliability Leadership" by Dr. David Olwell (Director of ReliaSoft Professional Services). Presented at RAMS (January 22-25, 2001 in Philadelphia, PA).
2000
"Modeling & Analysis for Multiple Stress-Type Accelerated Life Data" by Adamantios Mettas, Senior Scientist, ReliaSoft Corporation. Presented at RAMS (January 24-27, 2000 in Los Angeles, CA).
"Reliability Allocation and Optimization for Complex Systems" by Adamantios Mettas, Senior Scientist, ReliaSoft Corporation. Presented at RAMS (January 24-27, 2000 in Los Angeles, CA).
"Field Data is Reliability Information: Implementing an Automated Data Acquisition and Analysis System" by James Jauw, Amway Corporation and Pantelis Vassiliou, ReliaSoft Corporation. Presented at RAMS (January 24-27, 2000 in Los Angeles, CA).

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