Component reliability under environmental stress
Abstract In this paper, the author has developed a mathematical model for the evaluation of components' reliability under the assumption that the component possesses a non-constant (variable) failure rate of the form (m/k)t m−1 , which means that the failure density function follows Weibull pattern (distribution). The stress, under which component operates, has been assumed to be Maxwellian. In the end, cases when Weibull distribution reduces to exponential and Rayleigh distributions, have also been discussed.