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bathtub curve: a standalone construct

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Reliability engineering

the pattern of high early failures, a flat middle period and rising wear-out failures over a product's life.

In reliability engineering, bathtub curve refers to the pattern of high early failures, a flat middle period and rising wear-out failures over a product's life. This meaning comes from Klutke (2003) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability.[1]

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References

Klutke, G., Kiessler, P. C., & Wortman, M. A. (2003). A critical look at the bathtub curve. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 52(1), 125-129. https://doi.org/10.1109/tr.2002.804492

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