Learning from History:the Reliability of Experts and Expert Systems
Engineering design must be cost-effective over its complete life cycle and this necessitatesa statistical approach to product and service reliability.A particular design therefore has a finiteprobability of failure during its lifetime and this has implications in terms of ensuring that designprocedures,management of design,and operation and inspection are appropriate,effective andsufficient.Sophisticated expert system software packages have enabled wide access to rapiddevelopment to prototype and production stages.The expert knowledge encapsulated in such systemsmay be inadvertently used outside its intended application envelope,leading to unexpected andunwelcome failures.This paper highlights the role of failure analysis and fractography in the contextof product reliability.It will present case studies illustrating typical structural reliability problemsthat highlight issues connected with the reliability of experts in assessing the reasons for failure.
Product Reliability Failure Analysis Reliability of Experts Structural Failure Forensic Engineering
M.N.James
Faculty of Technology,University of Plymouth,Drake Circus,Plymouth PL4 8AA,England
国际会议
成都
英文
2008-08-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）