A New Distribution and Application in Engineering Reliability

Failure probability of a component is the major project of engineering probability. The reliability of a mechanical system or a structural system is calculated by components in the system. However, statistics data shows that the distribution of test data of components is not according with the distribution by theory as normal distribution. Normal distribution is extensively applied in the component reliability nowadays. Its domain is the field of real numbers, whereas, test data of exper-iments are on a finite field. Consequently, the component reliability used the normal distributions has some limitations. It is necessary to choose a suitable distribution in the calculating method. Comparing the normal distribution density curve and the statistics graph, a new distribution is pre-sented in this paper. The examples by both normal distribution and the new distribution are given, respectively. The results suggest that the new distribution is more accurate than normal distribution in the component reliability.