Technical Papers

Reliability Evaluation and Application for Systems with Different Phases ........................................... 05B1
Huairui Guo, Adamantios Mettas and Arai Monteforte
A Systems Reliability Approach to Decision Making in Autonomous Multi-Platform Systems Operating a
Phased Mission....................................................................................................................................... 05B2
John D. Andrews, Darren Prescott and Rasa Remenyte-Prescott
Risk Analysis of Phased-Mission Systems with Multiple Failure Modes .............................................. 05B3
Takehisa Kohda, Satoshi Matsumoto and Masaki Nakagawa
Reliability Analysis of Phased-Mission Systems using Bayesian Networks.......................................... 05B4
Dong Liu, Chunyuan Zhang, Weiyan Xing and Rui Li
Optimal Highway Maintenance Policies under Uncertainty...................................................................05D1
Bruno Castanier and Thomas G. Yeung
A Study on Optimal Age Replacement of Dozer Engines......................................................................05D2
P.V.N. Prasad and Kancharla R.M. Rao
World Class Supply Chain Reliability in General Aviation ...................................................................05D3
Murad Hamada and Glenn Jarrell
Uncertainty in Life Cycle Cost of Railway Track ..................................................................................05D4
Ambika Prasad Patra, Peter Soderholm and Uday Kumar
A Methodology for Managing Reliability Growth during Operational Mission Profile Testing............06A1
Larry H. Crow
An Age-adjusted Comparison of Field Failure Data for Repairable Systems ........................................06A2
Tony Halim and Loon-Ching Tang
Increasing the Effectiveness of FRACAS ..............................................................................................06A3
Michael Ciemian
Identifying Factors Influencing Reliability of Professional Systems .....................................................06A4
Aravindan Balasubramanian, Kostas Kevrekedis, Peter J.M. Sonnemans, and
Martin J. Newby
Assessment of Launch Vehicle Debris Risk During Ascent Aborts....................................................... 06B1
Ken Gee and Donovan L. Mathias
Simulation Assisted Risk Assessment Applied to Launch Vehicle Conceptual Design......................... 06B2
Donovan L. Mathias, Suzie Go, Ken Gee and Scott Lawrence
Blast Overpressure Modeling Enhancements for Application to Risk-Informed Design of a Human Space
Flight Launch.......................................................................................................................................... 06B3
Scott Lawrence and Donovan L. Mathias
Software Tools for PRA ......................................................................................................................... 06B4
Ming Li and Paula S. Pruessner
Bayesian Inference Model for Step-Stress Accelerated Life Testing with Type-II Censoring...............07A1
Jinsuk Lee and Rong Pan

Construction of Causality Diagram Model for Diagnostics....................................................................07A2

Guo Li, Jianmin Gao and Fumin Chen
AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE STANDARD FOR BAYESIAN RELIABILITY DEMONSTRATION ..07A3
Scott Yates
A Case Study on Network Reliability Analysis for Systems with Non-Independent Paths ...................07A4
Meng-Lai Yin and Rafael R. Arellano
Functional and Dysfunctional Analysis of a Mechatronic System ......................................................... 07B1
Amel Demri, Abderafi Charki, Fabrice Guerin and Herve Christofol
On Determining Sample Size and Testing Duration of Repairable System Test.................................... 07B2
Huairui Guo, Rong Pan
Life Testing of Plastic Optical Fibers for Lead-Acid Battery Fast Charge Equipment .......................... 07B3
Jorge Marcos Acevedo, Ana Maria Cao Paz, Santiago Fernandez-Gomez and
Maria Luisa Soria
Efficiently represent diverse System Field Usage in Reliability Testing ............................................... 07B4
Peter J.M. Sonnemans, Aravindan Balasubramanian, Kostas Kevrekedis and Martin J. Newby
A Unified Model for Evaluating the Safety Integrity Level of Safety Instrumented Systems................07D1
Julia V. Bukowski
Analysis of the Performance of Safety-Critical Systems with Diagnosis and Periodic Inspection ........07D2
Tieling Zhang, Yiming Wang and Min Xie
Probabilistic analysis of safety-critical adaptive systems with temporal dependences...........................07D3
Rasmus Adler, Dominik J. Domis, Mark Forster and Mario Trapp
Safety Management for Electromechanical Systems of Railway Vehicles ............................................07D4
Zdenek Vintr and Michal Vintr
System Reliability Analysis with the Response Surface Method ...........................................................08A1
John Z. Gyekenyesi, William Strack, Edward J. Zampino and Shantaram S. Pai
Optimizing the Number of Failure modes for Design Analysis Based on Physics of Failure ................08A2
Valter Loll
Using Competitive Analysis to Get the Competitive Advantage ...........................................................08A3
Doug Farel and Mike Andrew Silverman
Development of a Design For Reliability Method for Complex Systems ..............................................08A4
Guillaume Poncelin, Jean-Pierre Derain, Aline Cauvin and Denis Dufrene
Early Detection of Warranty Issues: A Multi-Disciplinary Literature Survey ....................................... 08B1
Sameer Vittal and Hemy Neuman
Analysis of Decisions Involved in Offering a Product Warranty ........................................................... 08B2
Bryan LeBlanc
A Practical Method for Failure Analysis Using Incomplete Warranty Data .......................................... 08B3
Karen Mohan, Brad Cline and Jennifer Akers
Design for Warranty Cost Reduction ..................................................................................................... 08B4

Bob Mueller
A Simple Classification Approach to Build a Bathtub ...........................................................................09A1
Brian Douglas Haan
System Reliability Evaluation Using Normalized Test Data..................................................................09A2
James B. Farmer and Paul M. Ellner
Reliability Improvement of Deformation Tools with the Taguchi Robust Design.................................09A3
Calin Florin Baban, Marius Baban and Ioan Eugen Radu
Use of Heritage Data, and Other Partially Applicable Information in Reliability Prediction of Systems
under Development ................................................................................................................................09A4
Enrique Lopez Droguett and Ali Mosleh
Hazard Rate Estimation for High-Voltage Contacts using Infrared Thermography............................... 09B1
Tommie Lindquist and Lina Bertling
Dynamic Model for Assessing Impact of Regeneration Actions on System Availability : Application to
Weapon Systems .................................................................................................................................... 09B2
Maxime Monnin, Benoit Iung, Olivier Senechal and Pascal Lelan
Reliability for Cluster-based Ad-hoc Networks ..................................................................................... 09B3
Jason L. Cook and Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez
Reducing Corrosion Costs through Reliability Centered Design ........................................................... 09B4
David H. Rose
Optimum Plans for Step-Stress Accelerated Life Tests at Higher Usage Rates .....................................11A1
Guangbin Yang
Consideration of Burn-In Acceleration and Effective Screening Procedure in Latest System LSI ........11A2
Nobuyuki Wakai, Yuji Kobira and Hidemitsu Egawa
Application of Generalized Linear Models for Optimizing Production Stress Testing ..........................11A3
Bahman Honari, John Donovan, Toby Joyce and Simon P. Wilson
An Approach for Estimating the Reliability of Transmission Oils.........................................................11A4
Christian Maisch, Bernd Bertsche, Bernd-Robert Hohn and Hans-Philipp Otto
Reliability Modeling for Dependent Competitive Failure Processes...................................................... 11B1
Zhong-Lai Wang, Li Du and Hong-Zhong Huang
Availability Analysis of Systems with Suspended Animation ............................................................... 11B2
Duane Huffman, Robert Bergman, Suprasad V. Amari and Ming Jian Zuo
Optical Monitoring System Availability Optimization via Semi-Markov Processes and Genetic
Algorithms.............................................................................................................................................. 11B3
Marcio das Chagas Moura, Paulo Renato Firmino, Enrique Lopez Droguett and
Carlos Magno C. Jacinto
On the Cost of Low-Fidelity Modeling: The Case for a Performability Approach ................................ 11B4
Meng-Lai Yin and John E. Angus
Selecting Test and Maintenance Strategies to achieve Availability Target with lowest
Life-Cycle Cost. .....................................................................................................................................11D1

Pierre Dersin, Alban Peronne and Cassim Arroum

The Impact of Reliability Requirements on Development Life Cycle ...................................................11D2
Nematollah Bidokhti
Analysis of Safety Relief Valve Proof Test Data to Optimize Lifecycle Maintenance Costs ................11D3
R. E. Gross and S. P. Harris
Multi-State Reliability Requirements for Complex Systems..................................................................11D4
Jason L. Cook
Harvesting Reliability Data from the Internet ........................................................................................12A1
Heather B. Dussault, Peter S. Zarubin, Seymour F. Morris and David B. Nicholls
Reliability Evaluation of Systems with Degradation and Random Shocks ............................................12A2
Yu Liu, Hong-Zhong Huang and Hoang Pham
Uncertain Failure Thresholds in Cumulative Damage Models...............................................................12A3
Alexander Usynin, J. Wesley Hines and Aleksey Urmanov
Applying Bayes Linear Methods to Support Reliability Procurement Decisions...................................12A4
Tim Bedford, Richard Denning, Matthew Revie and Lesley Walls
Analysis of Multi-State Systems Using Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams............................................ 12B1
Jennifer Akers, Robert Bergman, Suprasad V. Amari and Liudong Xing
Probabilistic Common-Cause Failures Analysis .................................................................................... 12B2
Liudong Xing and Wendai Wang
Fault Propagation Analysis for Complex System Based on Small-World Network Model ................... 12B3
Jianmin Gao, Guo Li and Zhiyong Gao
Advanced Human Factors Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis................................................ 12B4
Mei Rong, Tingdi Zhao and Yang Yu
Intermittent Faults and Effects on Reliability of Integrated Circuits......................................................13A1
Cristian Constantinescu
How to Develop a Qualification Test Plan for RoHS Products ..............................................................13A2
Mike Andrew Silverman, Fred Schenkelberg and Craig Hillman
Reliability Assessments of Vibration-Induced Tube Fatigue Failure .....................................................13A3
Jianxiong Chen, Wenzhen Yan and Roger Yu
What's Wrong with Bent Pin Analysis, and What To Do About It ........................................................13A4
Nathaniel Ozarin
Optimal Software Release Time Determination with Risk Constraint ................................................... 13B1
Bo Yang, Huajun Hu and Jun Zhou
A Methodology for Quantitative Evaluation of Software Reliability using Static Analysis .................. 13B2
Walter W. Schilling and Mansoor Alam
Parameter Estimation for Software Reliability Models Considering Failure Correlation ...................... 13B3
Bo Yang, Suchang Guo, Ning Ning and Hong-Zhong Huang

Hybrid Methodology and Software Platform for Probabilistic Risk Assessment................................... 13B4
Katrina Groth, Dongfeng Zhu and Ali Mosleh
Changes in Items Failure Pattern during Maintenance: An Investigation of the Perfect Repair
Assumption.............................................................................................................................................13D1
Jan Block, Peter Soderholm and Tommy Tyrberg
System Reliability and Condition Based Maintenance...........................................................................13D2
Jeffrey Banks, Karl M. Reichard and Michael J. Drake
Bayesian Reliability and Maintainability Parameter Estimation for a Repairable System under Imperfect
Maintenance ...........................................................................................................................................13D3
Pingjian Yu, Joon Jin Song and C. Richard Cassady
Modeling and Simulation Methodology of the Operational Availability and Logistics using Extended
Stochastic Petri Nets...............................................................................................................................13D4
Steffen Bebel and Bernd Bertsche
Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Load-Sharing Systems......................................................................14A1
Suprasad V. Amari and Robert Bergman
Reliability Predictions - More than the Sum of the Parts .......................................................................14A2
James A. McLinn
Telcordia Reliability Prediction Procedure: Upper Confidence Levels..................................................14A3
Jay M. Bennett
Electronics in Harsh Environments - Product Verification and Validation ............................................14A4
Kirsten Stentoft and Marie Louise Petersen
Threat Effects Analysis: Applying FMEA to Model Computer System Threats ................................... 14B1
John B. Bowles and William P. Hanczaryk
Nonparametric Model-Based Prognostics .............................................................................................. 14B2
J. Wesley Hines and Dustin Garvey
Examination of the Interplay of Reliability and Security using System Modeling Language................ 14B3
Brian Douglas Haan
Prognostics and Health Management using Physics-of-Failure ............................................................. 14B4
Jie Gu and Michael G. Pecht
Maintainability Readiness Assessment (MRA) ......................................................................................14D1
Gary J. Zukowski and Donald Dzedzy
A historical survey with success and maturity estimates of launch systems with RL10 upper stage
engines....................................................................................................................................................14D2
Suzie Go
Maintenance Policy for a Non-Stationary Deteriorating System............................................................14D3
Estelle Deloux, Bruno Castanier and Christophe Berenguer
Spare Part Management Considering Increasing Number of Sales ........................................................14D4
Haitao Liao, Peng Wang, Tongdan Jin and Sunny Repaka