The integrity of system hardware is an important requirement for providing dependable services. Understanding the hardware’s failure mechanisms and the error rate is therefore an important step towards devising an effective overall protection mechanism to prevent service failure. In this paper we discuss an on-going case study of memory hardware failures of production systems in a server-farm e...

In this work the reliability of a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) microphone is studied through two accelerated life tests, mixed flowing gas (MFG) testing and shock impact testing. The objective is to identify the associated failure mechanisms and improve the reliability of MEMS devices. Failure analyses are carried out by using various tools, such as optical microscopy, scanning elect...

Conclusions This article develops a Bayes model for step-stress accelerated life testing. The failure times at each stress level are exponentially distributed, but the specification of strict adherence to a time transformation function is not required. Rather, prior information is used to define indirectly a multivariate prior distribution for the failure rates at the various stress levels. Ou...

In this study, we aim to investigate the effect of galvanic corrosion on mechanical properties aluminum-CFRP adhesive joints. Aluminum-CFRP, aluminum-aluminum, and CFRP-CFRP joint specimens were prepared. Subsequently, subjected accelerated aging treatment in a salt spray environment, tensile shear strength, transition failure surface deposition state components products with time quantitativel...

The failure of medium voltage (MV) cables in North Queensland has led Ergon Energy to consider the relative economics of refurbishment or replacement. In order to provide data to inform decision making, an accelerated ageing program has been designed to investigate the ageing of new, field aged, and refurbished cables. This paper describes the considerations affecting the design of the ageing e...

The natural history of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is characterized by a slow progression resulting in respiratory failure and death. The progression to the fulminant form is rapid in a small percentage of cases, however. Within weeks or months, patients develop respiratory distress, and extensive ground-glass patterns can be seen in computed tomography scans and hyaline membranes in biopsy s...

We reviewed the regulatory history of the accelerated approval process and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experience with accelerated approval of oncology products from its initiation in December 11, 1992, to July 1, 2010. The accelerated approval regulations allowed accelerated approval of products to treat serious or life-threatening diseases based on surrogate endpoints that are r...

Improved performance and reliability of 9xx nm single emitter laser diodes are presented. To date, over 15,000 hours of accelerated multi-cell lifetest reliability data has been collected, with drive currents from 14A to 18A and junction temperatures ranging from 60C to 110C. Out of 208 devices, 14 failures have been observed so far. Using established accelerated lifetest analysis techniques,...