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The document outlines a series of assignments focused on reliability functions, hazard rates, and failure distributions across various scenarios. It includes calculations for reliability after specific operating hours, deriving hazard rate functions, and determining probabilities of failure, mean time to failure (MTTF), and design life for different components and systems. Each assignment requires mathematical derivations and analyses based on provided probability density functions (PDFs) and reliability equations.

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Assignment - 1 MRE

The document outlines a series of assignments focused on reliability functions, hazard rates, and failure distributions across various scenarios. It includes calculations for reliability after specific operating hours, deriving hazard rate functions, and determining probabilities of failure, mean time to failure (MTTF), and design life for different components and systems. Each assignment requires mathematical derivations and analyses based on provided probability density functions (PDFs) and reliability equations.

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Assignment-1

1.Consider the following reliability function, where t is in hours:

1
𝑅(𝑡) = t ≥0
0.001𝑡+1

(a)Find the reliability after 100 operating hours, after 1000


operating hours.
(b)Derive the hazard rate function. Is it an increasing or a
decreasing failure rate?

2. A component has the following linear hazard rate, where t is


in years:
λ (t) = 0.4t t≥0
(a) Find R(t) and determine the probability of a component
failing within the first month of its operation.
(b) What is the design life if a reliability of 0.95 is desired?

3. The time-to-failure density function (PDF) for a system is


f(t) = 0.01 0 ≤ t ≤ 100days
Find (a) R(t)
(b) The hazard rate function
(c) The MTTF
(d) The standard deviation
(e) The median time to failure

4. The failure distribution is defined by


3𝑡 2
f(t) = 0 ≤ t ≤ 1000hr
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(a) What is the probability of failure within a 100hr
warranty period?
(b) Compute the MTTF.
(c) Find the design life for a reliability of 0.99.

5. For R(t) = 𝑒 −√0.001𝑡 t≥0


(a) Compute the reliability for a 50hr mission.
(b) Show that the hazard rate is decreasing.
(c) Given a 10hr burn-in period, compute the reliability for
a 50hr mission.
(d) What is the design life for a reliability of 0.95 given a
10hr burn in?

6. The PDF for the time to failure in years of the derivetrain on


a Regional Transit Authority bus is given by
f(t) = 0.2 - 0.02t 0 ≤ t ≤ 10yr
(a) Show that the hazard rate function is increasing,
indicating continuous wearout over time.
(b) Find the MTTF.
(c) Find the median time to failure.
(d) Find the mode of the failure distribution.
(e) Compute the standard deviation.Type equation here.

7. The Itwill Faill Company manufactures gizmos for use on


widgets. The time to failure, in years, of these gizmos has the
following PDF:
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f(t)= for t ≥ 0
(𝑡+10)3
(a) Derive the reliability function and determine the
reliability for the first year of operation.
(b) Compute the MTTF.
(c) What is the design life for a reliability of 0.95?
(d) Is the failure rate DFR, CFR or IFR?
(e) Will a one-year burn-in period improve the reliability in
part(a)? If so, what is the new reliability?

8. A uniform failure distribution has the characteristic that


equal intervals of time have equal failure probabilities. The
density function is given by
1
f(t) = 0≤t≤b
𝑏
Analyze this general failure distribution by finding
F(t),R(t),λ(t),MTTF,𝑇𝑚𝑒𝑑 ,𝑇𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒 and σ.

9. A household appliance is advertised as having more than a


10-yr life. If the following is its PDF, determine its reliability for
the next 10-yr if it has survived a 1-yr warranty period:
f(t) = 0.1(1 + 0.05𝑡)−3 t≥0
What is its MTTF before the warranty period, and what is its
MTTF after the warranty period assuming it has still survived?

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