To measure a product characteristic, sometimes the product must be destroyed. For example, when measuring breaking strength, the product is stressed until it breaks. Regular degradation analysis no longer applies in these situations. You can handle these situations in one of two ways:
• If your failure time model is a commonly used one, it might be covered by the Destructive Degradation platform. See “Destructive Degradation”.
• If you are using custom transformations of the time or response variables and custom nonlinear models, use the Degradation platform. In the launch window, select the Destructive Degradation tab.