Abstract
ABSTRACT The study of the reliability of an ageing structure needs to take account of the time effect. The computation of the cumulative failure probability uses the computation of the outcrossing rate and the use of stochastic processes. Unfortunately, the available data do not always allow a thoroughly characterization of the process. This article presents two methods which compute the outcrossing rate despite a limited information. The first method uses system reliability. The second one uses instantaneous reliability thanks to the decrease of the performance function when the ageing is studied in a time invariant environment. Two examples illustrate the two methods.
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