Before revision: Reliability If the distributions for both the stress and the strength both follow a Normal distribution, then the reliability (R) of a component can be determined by the following equation: , where P(Z) can be determined from a Z table or a statistical software package .
After revision: Reliability If the distributions for both the stress and the strength both follow a Normal distribution, then the reliability (R) of a component can be determined by the following equation: , where P(Z) can be determined from a Z table or a statistical software package