Abstract—During mechanical products are in the process of
testing or running, a number of key components will be wearing
and aging, resulting in some sizes or gaps change. This kind of
phenomena can be called the structural degradation. In order to
obtain the degradation data, we need to dismantle and inspect
the product in a planned way, which is usually a very complex
work. However, it’s seldom to carry out the research work
based on structural degradation data in the research field of
reliability assessment and life prediction. In this paper, the
structural degradation data are described as a linear stochastic
process model, considering the failure mechanism of the
product, the reliability function can be obtained. At last a
numerical example of a marine steam turbo-generator (MSTG)
is given to illustrate the efficiency of this model.
Index Terms—Reliability assessment, life prediction,
structural performance degradation data, marine steam
turbo-generator (MSTG).
The authors are with the College of Information Systems and
Management, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT),
Changsha, China (e-mail: wangqiang1335@126.com).
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Cite: Wang Qiang, Feng Jing, Sun Quan, Pan Zhengqiang, and Meng Jieru, "Mechanical Products Reliability Assessment Based on the Structural Performance Degradation Data," International Journal of Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 166-169, 2015.
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