Models of Failure

The increase in the requirements on the reliability of units makes it necessary to analyze the relationship between mathematicalmethods of calculating reliability and the physical nature of fail­ ures. The difficulty of such an analysis is obvious. On the one hand, in making a representation of the physical picture of a phenomenon, one can make an error in the direction of excessive sim­ plification. On the other hand, in the mathematical treatment of the physical scheme, it may be necessar...