Accelerated Corrorion Testing: Salt Spry Test

Design Considerations and Test Facilities for Accelerated Radiation Effects Testing*

Outer planet missions require electronics and science instruments that have a useful lifetime of up to ten years. During this time, they are continuously within the gamma and neutron fields of the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), which provides electrical power to the spacecraft. Additionally, these electronics and science instruments are subjected to a number of other radiation str...

Spry Features

The fundamental contribution of this thesis is Spry a new framework for spry (agile, nimble) object/scene recognition. Spry presents a new affine invariant recognition paradigm that typically produces results at least as good as, if not better than, current state of the art algorithms while being significantly faster. To achieve this, Spry develops new technologies that stand on their own as co...

Bayesian Accelerated Life Testing

In this paper a Bayesian approach for accelerated life testing will be considered. It will be assumed that the failure times at the different stress levels follow a Weibull distribution and exponential distribution, respectively. In accelerated life tests, the components are exposed to an environment that is more severe that the usual environment, such that the components will fail in a shorter...

Guide to Accelerated Testing

INTRODUCTION The proposition of specifying, designing, or constructing a new system or one or more of its sub-elements (e.g., production articles, assemblies, components, or constituent materials) is one that is common and familiar to most engineers. Admittedly, no one engineer is involved in all aspects of bringing a new system from product definition through deployment, but rather, each is mo...

Caltrans Accelerated Pavement Test