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Part subjected to more than one failure mode
I understand your point but it doesn’t correspond to the case that I described. I mean one specific component of a machine that may experience two different failure modes (it could be the case of a ball bearing which might fail due to normal wear but might break too due improper use). When...- assis46
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Part subjected to more than one failure mode
Of course they are independent. It just couldn´t be other way, as they take place in the same part. The failure mode that happens first place nulls the chance of the other ever shows up. It could be the case, for instance, of a part that normally wears out but, being subjected to shocks now and...- assis46
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- Forum: Engineering methods
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Part subjected to more than one failure mode
Hi gents, When a part is subjected to more than a single failure mode, each one described by a Weibull distribution, how do you determine the combined failure frequency? I get it easily by using Monte-Carlo simulation but it becomes rather different when it comes to analytics. I have made a...- assis46
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