xxvi Reliability and Risk Assessment

a Proportion of failures in specific failure mode (FMEA)

P Conditional probability of a consequence resulting from a
potential cause; ratio of common cause failure rate to the
total failure rate; Weibull shape parameter
r Weibull location constant
i Weibull scale parameter (characteristic life)
e Test or inspection interval
A Failure rate or hazard rate
A Base failure rate
Ace Common cause component failure rate
4 Independent component failure rate
Ap Part failure rate
A(0 Conditional failure intensity (failure and repair process)
V Mean time to failure; distribution mean
P(i. Conditional repair intensity (failure and repair process)
V Constant repair rate
<J Mean deviation of a random variable or of a population
T Mean time to repair
</> Network incidence function