4.1.
For a system having a Weibull failure distribution with a shape
parameter of 1.4 and a scale parameter of 550 days, find the following:
(a) R(100 days) (b) The B1 life (c) MTTF (d) The standard deviation
(e) fed (f) niode (g) The design life for a reliability of 0.90
4.2. A turbine blade has demonstrated a Weibull failure pattern with a
decreasing failure rate characterized by a shape parameter of 0.6 and a
scale parameter of 800 hr. (a) Compute its reliability for a 100-hr mission.
(b) If there is a 200-hr burn-in of the blades, what is the reliability for a
100-hr mission?
4.3. A power supply consists of three rectifiers in Series. Each rectifier has
a Weibull failure distribution with ẞ equal to 2.1. However, they have
different characteristic life times given by 12,000 hr, 18,500 hr, and 21,500
hr. Find the MTTF and the design life of the power supply corresponding
to a reliability of 0.90.
4.4. For a three-parameter Weibull distribution with beta = 1.54 hr, theta
= 8500 and 50 hr. find the following:
(a) R(150 hr) (b) MTTF (c) t aed (d) The standard deviation (e) The design
life for a reliability of 0.98
4.5. For the component defined in Exercise 4.1, determine the reliability
for 100 hr if there are two redundant components.
4.6. A system has two failure modes. One failure mode, due to external
conditions, has a constant failure rate of 0.07 failure per year. The second,
attributed to wear out, has a Weibull distribution with a characteristic life
of 10 yr and a shape parameter of 1.8. Determine the system reliability for
a design life of 1 yr. Find by trial and error the median time to failure.
4.7. What is the maximum number of identical and independent Weibull
components having a scale parameter of 10,000 operating hours and a
shape parameter of 1.3 that can be put in series if a reliability of 0.95 at
100 operating hours is desired? What is the resulting system MTTF?
4.8. The time to failure in operating hours of a critical solid-state power
unit has the follow-ing hazard rate function: lambda(t) = 0.003 * (7/500) ^
0.5 t >= 0
(a) What is the reliability if the power unit must operate continuously for
50 hr? (b) Determine the design life if a reliability of 0.90 is desired.
(c) Compute the MTTF. (d) Given that the unit has operated for 50 hr,
what is the probability that it will survive a second 50 hr of operation?
(e) The power unit is also subject to chance failures at a rate of 0.002
failure per oper-ating hour because of the external environment. What is
the power unit's reliability for the first 50 hr of operation considering both
failure modes?
4.9. The wearout of a machine part is normally distributed with 90
percent of the failures occurring between 200 and 270 hr of use (i.e., 5
percent below 200 hr and 5 percent above 270 hr).
(a) Find the MTTF and the standard deviation of failure times. (b) What is
the reliability if the part is to be used for 210 hr and then replaced? (c)
Determine the design life if no more than a 1 percent probability of failure
prior to be replacement is to tolerated, (d) Compute the reliability for a
10-hr use if the part has been operating for 200 hr
4.10. After burn-in, the lifetime of a mechanical valve is known to be
lognormal with med 2236 hr and s = 0.41.(a) Determine its design life if
specifications call for a reliability of 0.98. (b) The component is to be used
in a pumping device that will require 5 weeks of continuous use. What is
the probability of a failure occurring because of the valve? (c) Compute
the MTTF. (d) Find the standard deviation of the time to failure
(e) Determine the mode.
4.11. A pressure gauge has been observed to have a Weibull failure
distribution with a shape parameter of 2.1 and a characteristic life of
12,000 hr. Find the following: (a) R(5000 hr) (b) The Bl and B.1 life (c) The
MTTF and the standard deviation (d) The median and the mode (e) The
probability of failure in the first year of continuous operation 4.12. A
component has a Weibull failure distribution with ẞ equal to 0.86, and its
charac-teristic life is 2450 days. By how many days will the design life for a