. Nine test samples of SCS slabs are made with stud bolt connectors and are put under concentrated load at the center of the slab. The observed failure modes included concrete core crack, lower plate slip and upper plate buckling, and stud bolt separation...

lifetime of an individual part at time t as in replacement and repair models. In this paper, a new accelerated life testing model based on the Proportional MRL (PMRL) model in the presence of more than one failure mode is presented and its applicability...