Reliability Analysis and Customized Preventive Maintenance Policies for Stents With Stochastic Dependent Competing Risk Processes

• Published in: IEEE transactions on reliability Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 887 - 897
• Main Authors: Keedy, Elias, Qianmei Feng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2013
• Subjects: Brownian motion; customized preventive maintenance; Degradation; Electric shock; Maintenance engineering; physics-of-failure; Probabilistic logic; Reliability; single-event overload; stent fatigue crack growth; stochastic dependent competing risk processes; Stochastic processes; Stress
• ISSN: 0018-9529; 1558-1721
• DOI: 10.1109/TR.2013.2285045

The rapid advancement of biomedical implant devices has raised new challenges to the failure analysis and reliability study of such new technologies. Based on the physics-of-failure study of stents, we develop a probabilistic reliability model that considers the stochastic processes presumed to desc...