flory fox, kurata-stockmayer, berry, inagaki-suzuki-kurata, stockmayer-fixman and ahmad-baloch methods based on the excluded volume theory have been applied to poly(vinyl chloride)-cyclohexanone system to obtain kq and the radius of gyration. a discussion on the reliability of these methods is given. the stockmayer-fixman and ahmad-baloch methods are found to be equally applicable.

In this paper, based on the kinematic accuracy theory and matrix-based system reliability analysis method, a practical method for system reliability analysis of the kinematic performance of planar linkageswith correlated failuremodes is proposed. The Taylor series expansion is utilized to derive a general expression of the kinematic performance errors caused by random variables. A proper limit ...

Conventional approach to mathematical description of experiments applies probability theory. Here, another approach is used to express uncertainty based on probability, fuzzy sets, and evidence theory. The paper presents a new reliability model of an element working in different environmental and stress conditions. Fuzzy and probability descriptions are combined together using evidence theory t...

We present a concise overview of imprecise reliability, particularly focussing on reliability theory with uncertainty quantified via lower and upper probabilities. We discuss the main approaches and opportunities of the theory, we include references to guide further study, and we briefly discuss some research challenges.

This paper presents a new, non-binary measure of the reliability of broadcast algorithms, called ∆Reliability. This measure quantifies the reliability of practical broadcast algorithms that, on the one hand, were devised with some form of reliability in mind, but, on the other hand, are not considered reliable according to the “traditional” notion of broadcast reliability [8]. Our specification...