Reliability Glossary

Subject Listing

For ease of reference, the contents of the Reliability Glossary (Alphabetical Listing) have been subdivided into topic-specific categories. The following subject categories are presented:

Accelerated Testing Terms - Accelerated life testing, Arrhenius model, Cumulative damage model, Eyring model, General log-linear model, HALT, HASS, Inverse power law, Proportional hazards model, Stress testing, Temperature-humidity model, Temperature-non-thermal model 

Life Distributions Terms - Exponential distribution, Failure distribution, Gaussian distribution, Generalized gamma distribution, Life distribution, Lognormal distribution, Mixed Weibull distribution, Normal distribution, Probability density function (pdf), Weibull distribution

Maintainability & Availability Terms - Availability, Down time, Maintainability, MTTR, NHPP, Repair, Repair distribution, Repairable system, Up time

Reliability Growth Terms - AMPM, AMSAA model, Duane model, Gompertz model, Lloyd-Lipow model, Modified Gompertz model, NHPP, Reliability growth

Reliability & Statistics Terms - BX life, Censored data, Complete data, Confidence bounds, Cumulative density function (cdf), Failure rate, Fisher matrix, Hazard rate, Kaplan-Meier estimator, Likelihood function, Likelihood ratio, Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), Mean life, Median ranks, MTBF, MTTF, Probability, Probability density function (pdf), Quality, Reliability, Reliability analysis, Reliability importance, Reliability life data analysis, Statistics, Suspended data

System Reliability Terms - Block diagram, Complex system, Decomposition method, Event space method, Path-tracing method, RBD, Reliability block diagram, System reliability

Testing & Analysis Terms - ANOVA, Competing failure modes, Contour plot, Degradation analysis, Importance measure, Life data analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, Nonparametric analysis, Plotting paper, Probability plot, Probability plotting paper, Reliability test design, Reliability testing, Sequential testing, Spares provisioning, SPRT, Stress-strength interference, Warranty analysis