Subject Index
Aluminium castings, 29-33
tensile strength, 18
yield strength, 14
Amplitude or reversal stress, err, 68,
85
Non-rotating shaft (co = 0),
rotating shaft (co ¢ 0),
Automatic assembly failure, 45
Bathtub aging curve, 193
Bayes theorem, 42
Bearing
life, 232
reliability, 202
Bull gear shaft sizing, 101
card sort, 105
coupling equation, 106
Monte Carlo, 104
Card drawing, 46
Card sort probability, 52
Card sort variance, 51
Cantilever aluminium casting beam
sizing, 114
Gaussian material
representation, 118, 121,
122
Weibull material representation,
115, 120, 121
Cantilever beam loading
card sort mean, standard
deviation, 64
Gaussian mean, STD deviation,
65
Cantilever beam sizing, 98
coupling equation, 99
Monte Carlo, 100
Cantilever titanium beam sizing, 122
Gaussian material
representation, 122, 124
card sort and lower material
bounds, 131
Gaussian Material Lower, 132
Safety Factors, 133
Weibull Material Lower, 132
Weibull maerial representation,
122, 123
Cell number, 2, t 3
Cell width, 2, 13
Coefficient of variation, 49
card sort, 52
Criterion function, 145
Decision trees, 44
Distortion energy
6 m-’ plane stress, 67
a’ r - plane stress, 67
Electric lamp data, 36
Endurance stress factors, 69
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