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Preface

PREFACE

This handbook is intended as a guide for determining reliability of functioning characteristics of weapon components by testing to failure. Component reliability of weapon systems is basically a function of engineering design. Margins of safety used in engineering design to create high reliabilities must be managed by testing to failure techniques to obtain unbiased estimates of reliability. The author does not hold that the concepts and principles presented herein are final. Revisions will inevitably be made as the state of the art advances.

I Introduction
II Modern Statistical Concepts
III Requirements for a Good Experiment
IV Planning Test Program
V Component Reliability
VII Reliability Confidence Intervals
IV Planning Test Programs
VIII Sample Size
IX Laboratory Test Methods for Components