Statistical models have long been used for reliability analysis and risk assessment. In the present study, an accelerated life-test model was used to analyze a set of dose-time-response data obtained with the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber. Survival data were experimentally obtained by exposing P. scaber to diazinon (a nonpersistent insecticide) at six concentrations between 2 and 11.31 mi...

By running life tests at higher stress levels than normal operating conditions, accelerated life testing quickly yields information on the lifetime distribution of a test unit. The lifetime at the design stress is then estimated through extrapolation using a regression model. To conduct an accelerated life test efficiently with constrained resources in practice, several decision variables such ...

In order to shorten test time and realize rapid evaluation of the reliability of products, a method of optimal design on multiple-crossed step-down stress accelerated life test (hereinafter written as MCSDS-ALT) based on Monte-Carlo simulation is proposed. The optimal plan of combined stresses in the accelerated life test is designed. The analogue simulation on the step-down accelerated life te...

Chemically amplified resists provide some trade-off between resolution and amplification. While it is necessary for a single photogenerated acid to be mobile enough to cause several deprotection reactions, this inevitably leads to some linewidth spread. An acid molecule mobile enough to travel to several reaction sites is also mobile enough to move into unexposed regions of the resist. In order...

Fuel treatments are necessary in many vegetated areas of the Sierra Nevada to mitigate the effects of decades of fire suppression and land-management activities on fuel accumulations and understory canopies. Treating fuels will reduce the severity of wildfires and, as a result, the threat to human lives, the destruction of property and valuable resources, and the alteration of natural fire regi...

A new method for mitigating unexpected impact of a redundant manipulator with an object in its environment is presented. Kinematic constraints are utilized with the recently developed method known as Full Space Parameterization (FSP). System performance criteria and constraints are changed at impact to return the end effector to the point of impact and halt the arm. Since large joint accelerati...