The book 'Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing Technology' by Lev M. Klyatis outlines techniques and tools for engineers to accurately predict product quality, reliability, maintainability, and durability through accelerated reliability and durability testing (ART and ADT). It addresses the critical need for improved testing methodologies, presents new ideas and technologies, and provides case studies to showcase practical applications. The content is relevant for engineers, managers, researchers, and students involved in systems engineering and product development.

1. AccelerAted
reli Ability A nd
durAbility
testing
technology
Lev M. Klyatis
Paperback • 440 pages • 2011 • ISBN 978-0-470-45465-7
USD $110.00 / £73.50 / = 88.20
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s ome automakers have more than million recalls a year. A similar situation could
happen to large, middle, and small companies in other industries. The basic reason
is an inaccurate prediction of a product’s reliability, durability, and quality. Prediction is
inaccurate, because accelerated reliability and durability testing, as a source of initial TO ORDER
information for this prediction, is not used. This book provides engineers with the techniques
and tools needed to use Accelerated Reliability Testing (ART) and Accelerated Durability Testing North, Central
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interdisciplinary systems engineering. The reader will find an analysis of the current status of
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This book covers the newest techniques in the field and provides many case studies that
illuminate how the implementation of ART and ADT can solve previously inaccessible problems
in engineering and reduce product recalls, cost, and time during design, manufacturing,
and usage. Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing Technology is the first book from
an acknowledged expert in the field to describe both the methodology and equipment for
such testing. It is indispensable reading for engineers, managers, researchers in industry, and
members of academia who are involved in systems engineering, the design of experiments, field
simulation, reliability, durability, maintenance, safety, human problems, prediction, and product
development, as well as graduate students in related courses.

2. Chapter 4. METHODOLOGY OF ACCELERATED RELIABILITY
AccelerAted
(DURABILITY) TESTING PERFORMANCE.
4.1 Analysis of Current Situation.
4.2 Philosophy of Accelerated Reliability Testing.
reliAbility A nd 4.3 Methodology of Accelerated Reliability/Durability Testing as a
Combination of Different Types of Testing.
durAbility
4.4 Accelerated Multiple Environmental Testing.
4.5 Accelerated Corrosion Testing.
4.6 Technology of Advanced Vibration Testing.
t esting 4.7
4.8
Field Reliability Testing.
Trends in the Development of Accelerated Reliability/Durability Testing
technology
Technology.
Problems.
Chapter 5. EQUIPMENT FOR ACCELERATED RELIABILITY/
Lev M. Klyatis DURABILITY TESTING TECHNOLOGY.
5.1 Analysis of Current Situation with Equipment for Accelerated Reliability
(Durability) Testing.
Preface. 5.2 Combined Equipment for Accelerated Reliability/Durability Testing as a
Combination (Integration) of Equipment for Different Types of Testing.
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION.
5.3 Consideration Components of Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing
1.1 The Purpose of Accelerated Testing. and Combined (Integrated) Equipment for these Testing Providing.
1.2 The Current Situation in Accelerated Testing. 5.4 Equipment for Mechanical Testing.
1.3 Financial Assessment of the Risks Involved in Testing Program. 5.5 Equipment for Multi-Environmental Testing and its Components.
1.4 Common Principles of Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing. 5.6 Equipment for Electrical Testing.
1.5 Level of Usefulness of Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing. Problems.
Problems.
Chapter 6. ACCELERATED RELIABILITY AND DURABILITY TESTING
Chapter 2. ACCELERATED RELIABILITY (DURABILITY) AS A SOURCE OF INITIAL INFORMATION FOR ACCURATE QUALITY,
TESTING AS A COMPONENT OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RELIABILITY, MAINTAINABILITY, AND DURABILITY PREDICTION,
SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS APPROACH. AND ACCELERATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
2.1 The Current Situation of Reliability and Quality in Practice. 6.1 About Accurate Quality, Reliability, Durability and Maintainability Prediction.
2.2 A Description of Product/Process Reliability and Durability as the 6.2 The Strategy of Accurate Prediction of Quality, Reliability, Maintainability
Components of Interdisciplinary Systems of Systems Approach. and Durability.
2.3 The Collection and Analysis of Failure and Usage Data from the Field. 6.3 The Role of Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing in An Accurate
Prediction and Accelerated Development of Quality, Reliability,
2.4 Field Input Influences. Maintainability and Durability.
2.5 Safety Problems as a Component of the Field Situation. Problems.
2.6 Human Factors as a Component of the Field Situation.
Chapter 7. THE ECONOMICAL RESULTS OF THE USAGE OF
2.7 The Quality and Reliability of the Product as Two Interconnected ACCELERATED RELIABILITY/DURABILITY TESTING.
Components.
Problems.
2.8 The Strategy to Integrate Engineering Concepts of Quality with Reliability.
Chapter 8. ACCELERATED RELIABILITY TESTING
2.9 The Place of Accelerated Reliability/Durability Testing in High
Quality, Reliability, Maintainability, and Durability. STANDARDIZATION.
Problems. 8.1 Overview and Analysis.
8.2 International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standards.
Chapter 3. THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF ACCELERATED
RELIABILITY AND DURABILITY TESTING. 8.3 ISO Standardization in Reliability Testing.
3.1 An accurate Simulation of the Field Situation as a Basic 8.4 Military Reliability Testing Standards and Appropriate Documents.
Component of Successful Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing. Glossary of Terms and Definitions.
3.2 Conceptual Methodology of Substantiation a Representative List of Figures.
Region for an Accurate Simulation of the Field Situation for
Providing Accelerated Reliability/Durability Testing. List of Tables.
3.3 Basic Procedures of Accelerated Reliability and Durability Testing. About the Author.
3.4 Accelerated Reliability Testing and Life-Cycle Costs. Abstracts and keywords for the electronic edition of the book.
Problems. Index.