Abstract
It is the purpose of this paper to introduce the issue of this TRANSACTIONS devoted entirely to reliability physics and to provide a frame of reference for the individual technical papers which follow. The organizers of this issue felt that a paper putting the various elements of reliability physics into proper perspective, and relating them to the prior art and to their proper fields of application could serve as a useful guide to the reader of this issue and to the literature.

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