title: A novel ontology approach to support design for reliability considering environmental effects.
abstract: Environmental effects are not considered sufficiently in product design. Reliability problems caused by environmental effects are very prominent. This paper proposes a method to apply ontology approach in product design. During product reliability design and analysis, environmental effects knowledge reusing is achieved. First, the relationship of environmental effects and product reliability is analyzed. Then environmental effects ontology to describe environmental effects domain knowledge is designed. Related concepts of environmental effects are formally defined by using the ontology approach. This model can be applied to arrange environmental effects knowledge in different environments. Finally, rubber seals used in the subhumid acid rain environment are taken as an example to illustrate ontological model application on reliability design and analysis.
authors.affiliation: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Tianyuan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3665-700X
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren
mesh_terms: D015258:Acid Rain / Q000009:adverse effects; D002980:Climate; D004738:Engineering; D004777:Environment; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000379:methods*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013597:Systems Analysis
chemical_list: D015258:Acid Rain
references.citation: Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1997;:640-4
references.pmid: 9357704