3-Dimensional general ADT modeling and analysis: Considering epistemic uncertainties in unit, time and stress dimension

Accelerated degradation testing (ADT) has been widely used to identify the performance degradation law so as to evaluate the reliability and lifetime. During this process, there are aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in the unit, time and stress dimension. However, the current studies do not have a comprehensive modeling framework and a general ADT model that fully considers and properly quantifies all sources and types of uncertainties. Aiming at these problems, this paper proposes a 3-Dimesional modeling framework and a general ADT model, and gives a new uncertain ADT model considering epistemic uncertainties in the unit, and stress dimension. Furthermore, considering the weights of observed degradation data under different stress levels, this paper proposes a new parameter estimation method, uncertain weighted least squares, to well predict degradation law and control uncertainties. Finally, a microwave case, a rubber seal case and two simulation cases are conducted to show the practicability of the proposed framework and model. The results show that the proposed framework can guide the construction of different models according to different situations; and compared with current methods, the proposed model are more appropriate for performing ADT model and quantifying uncertainties when uncertainty in the stress dimension cannot be ignored.

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This paper proposes a 3D modeling framework and a general ADT model to address the uncertainties in accelerated degradation testing. It also introduces a new parameter estimation method to predict degradation law and control uncertainties more effectively.