Richard E. Barlow

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the distribution of time to first system failure for systems whose repairable components are separately maintained and showed that if repairable component has exponential failure law, repair distributions have decreasing repair rate, and non-repairable components have increasing failure rate, then the new better than used.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a methodology for analyzing life test data and developed an exploratory data analysis or an analysis based on the physical processes generating the data, an exponential life distribution model may be judged as appropriate for the analysis of the data.

TL;DR: In this article, an expository survey of some recent academic research in the theory of system reliability and safety, applicable in the analysis of large complex systems such as nuclear reactors, computers, and space vehicles is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of interval failure rate is introduced and estimators based on the total time on test process are studied, which are asymptotically normal and independent.