Duane L. Dietrich

Professor Emeritus


Office: ENGR 153
Voice: (520) 621-6560
Email: duane@sie.arizona.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST:
Application of Bayesian decision theory in statistical quality control, and application of Bayesian decision theory in reliability testing, reliability growth modeling, reliability systems analysis.

Large scale availability systems analysis.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
  1. Smith, Ronald and Dietrich, Duane L., "The Bathtub Curve - An Alternate Explanation," Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, January 1994, pp. 241-247.

  2. Reddy, Rajasekhar and Dietrich, Duane L., "A Two Level EES Model: A Mixed Distribution Approach," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 43, No. 2, March 1994, pp. 85-90.

  3. Nollander, Jason L., and Dietrich, Duane L., "Attribute Data Reliability Decay Models," Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 34, No. 10, October, 1994, pp. 1565-1595.

  4. Pohl, Edward A., and Dietrich, Duane L., "Environmental Stress Screening Strategies for Multi-Component Systems with Weibull Failure-Times and Imperfect Failure Detection," Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, January, 1995, pp. 223-230.

  5. Hassett, Thomas, Dietrich, Duane L., and Szidarovszky, Ferenc, "Time Varying Failure and Repair Rates for the Reliability and Availability Analysis of Repairable systems," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 44, No. 1, March 1995, pp. 155-160.

  6. Pohl, Edward A., and Dietrich, Duane L., "Environmental Stress Screening for Complex Systems: A 3-level Mixed Distribution Model," Microelectronics and Reliability, Vol. 35, No. 4, June, 1995, pp. 637-656.

  7. Hassett, Thomas and Dietrich, Duane L., "Availability and Reliability Analysis of Three and Four Stage Series Transfer Lines", Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 14, No. 6, 1995, pp. 427-438.

  8. Somerville, Ian F., Dietrich, Duane L. and Mazzuchi, Thomas, A., "Bayesian Reliability Analysis Using the Dirichlet Prior Distribution with Emphasis on Accelerated Life Testing," Nonlinear Analysis Theory and Applications, Vol. 30 Part 7, December 1997, pp. 4415-4423. This is the refereed proceedings of the Second World Conference on Nonlinear Analysis.


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