...Intekhab Alam; Ahteshamul Haq; Lalit Kumar Sharma; Sumit Sharma; Ritika Purpose In this paper, the authors design accelerated life test and provide its application in the field of accelerated life test. The authors use maximum likelihood estimation method as a parameter estimation method...

... Photovoltaic application Accelerated life testing Reliability prediction Degradation assessment The advantage of dysfunctional analysis using the FTA method is to set, in the form of a tree structure, the causes of PV module degradation and the parameters influencing its degradation. Based...

...Nooshin Hakamipour Purpose In this paper, the author proposed an optimization design for a step-stress accelerated life test (SSALT) with two stress variables for the generalized exponential (GE) distribution under progressive type-I censoring. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, two...

...Nooshin Hakamipour Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the general k level step-stress accelerated life test with the Rayleigh lifetime distribution for units subjected to stress under progressive Type-I censoring. Design/methodology/approach The parameter...

..., capacitors degrade on accelerated pace. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This paper focusses on the impact of thermal stress on electrolytic capacitors using accelerated life testing technique. The failure time was calculated based on the change in capacitance...

...V.N.A. Naikan; Arvind Rathore Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on conducting accelerated life tests on aluminium electrolytic capacitors under accelerated temperature and voltage stress to study the effect of applied voltage and ambient temperature on the capacitor, its degradation...