Many highly reliable products are designed to function for years without failure. For such systems accelerated degradation testing may provide significance information about the reliability properties of the system. In this paper, we propose the $c$-optimality criterion for obtaining optimal designs of constant-stress accelerated degradation tests where the degradation path follow a linear mixed effects model. The present work is mainly concerned with developing optimal desings in terms of the time variable rather than considering an optimal design of the stress variable which is usually considered in the majority of the literature. Finally, numerical examples are presented and sensitivity analysis procedures are conducted for evaluating the robustness of the optimal as well as standard designs against misspecifications of the nominal values.
翻译:对于这种系统加速降解测试,可以提供关于系统可靠性的重要信息。在本文件中,我们建议采用美元-最佳标准,以便在降解路径采用线性混合效应模型的情况下,获得恒定压力加速降解测试的最佳设计。目前的工作主要涉及在时间变量方面开发最佳缺陷,而不是考虑压力变量的最佳设计,大多数文献通常都考虑这一设计。最后,提出了数字实例,并进行了敏感度分析程序,以评价最佳和标准设计是否稳健,防止名义价值的错误具体化。