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NOTICE:
By request from Robert B. (Scott) Kuhnen, CIV USAF ASC/ENOI, received 30 March, 2007, the download of the draft document is temporarily disabled pending clearance from the ASC.

Charles Annis, P.E.
Charles.Annis@StatisticalEngineering.com

 


MIL-HDBK-1823
"Nondestructive Evaluation System
Reliability Assessment"


About the mh1823 POD software:

The deliverables of my 2006-2007 contract to update MIL-HDBK-1823 included the draft of the updated Handbook and algorithms necessary to implement the methods described in the Handbook.  Software was not a deliverable item.

However it soon became clear to me that delivering descriptions of statistical algorithms, with no convenient implementation of them, would be of limited utility, so I wrote the mh1823 POD software suite to help promulgate the handbook's methods.

Since the software is mine, I am making it available - free - to anyone who requests it.  I have no Government support to maintain the software or to provide bug fixes, so I am doing this gratis; however requested new capabilities must await financial support.

mh1823 POD version history:

Current version is mh1823_v2.5
(Changes to the version's third decimal place are cosmetic only.)

Changes in version 2.5 from 2.4.4 (25 December, 2007)
  1. Fixed double bookkeeping of repeated measures in function compute.a.90.etc. that caused the (2 mil) discrepancy in the a90/95 values in figures G-27 and G-28.
  2. Fixed difficulties in reading exogenous â noise data, which must be in column 1 on "Sheet1" if the input uses an Excel format.
  3. Allowed for read-in noise to contain NA for left-censored observations.
  4. Restricted use of column 1 in input datasets to row identification only; column 1 cannot be used for either size or response.
  5. Updated splash screen to acknowledge version 2.5
  6. Removed the cause of an annoying but harmless recurring error message associated with plotting noise data.
  7. Fixed a problem reading CSV input files.

    Although these upgrades may seem modest, nevertheless they necessitated changes to 26 of the package's 154 subroutines.

Changes in version 2.4.4 from 2.4.3 (26 October, 2007)
  1. Corrected misspelling of David Forsyth.
  2. Corrected typo: "plot.noise.analyis" to "plot.noise.analysis" that had caused "could not find function" error.
  3. Updated disclaimer.

Version 2.4.3 was submitted to the U.S. Air Force on
28 February, 2007 with the DRAFT of MIL-HDBK-1823.


How to download, install, and use the mh1823 POD Software:

(Please read all the instructions before continuing.)

First, get things ready:

  1. Create a folder called R-Projects in your My Documents folder.

  2. In that folder create a subfolder named mh1823 POD

  3. Next, download the mh1823 POD package and example datasets:
    Since the One-click download was "temporarily" disabled March 2007 you can get the software - free - by request.

    Save the MIL-HDBK-1823 POD files.zip to your mh1823 POD folder and unzip it. This will produce the 1823 POD icon, 6 EXCEL files, and another zip file.  Do not unzip that file (currently mh1823_2.5.zip).

The rest is easy:

Since the mh1823 POD algorithms use R for all data manipulation, statistical analysis, and graphics ...

  1. Download and install R.   Click here.

  2. Then  install the mh1823 POD software which is an R package and is included in the MIL-HDBK-1823 POD files.zip file.  Click here.

Note on firewalls:
Downloading software on the company computer may run afoul of enterprise policy.  One remedy is to install R and the mh1823 POD package on a 1 gig memory stick.  (It takes about 1/4 gig total.)  Then you can analyze NDE data, and produce POD vs size curves, on any computer - plug in the stick and you're good to go.  All the analysis, results and plots will be on the stick.

Please send bug reports, comments, and suggestions to me:
Charles.Annis@StatisticalEngineering.com

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