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Class of tests going beyond standard operation conditions
Stress testing is a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing, used to determine the stability of a given system, critical infrastructure or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Stress testingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Resilience stress testing for critical infrastructureInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Understanding and assessing trauma in children and adolescentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Exercise Stress TestingCited 420 times
- Go sideways: Contraction stress testA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Cardiac stress testA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Exercise Stress Testing
Stress-testing macro stress testing: Does it live up to expectations?
Climate Stress Testing
Exercise stress testing.
Stress testing banks
Exercise Stress Testing
Stress testing methodology
Pharmacological stress testing
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Understanding and assessing trauma in children and adolescentsKathleen Nader · 2007- 📕Annotated bibliography of testsEducational Testing Service · 1985
- 📕Thermal-stress analysis for a wood composite bladeKuan-Chen Fu · 1984
Measuring stress in humansGillian H. Ice · 2006- 📕Elevated-temperature application of the IITRI compression test fixture for graphite/polyimide filmentary compositesB. Basava Raju · 1979
Stress testingMyrvin H. Ellestad · 1975
Stress analysis of polymersJ. G. Williams · 1973- 📕Stress-rupture data for Kevlar 49/epoxy strands at elevated temperaturesLynn Penn · 1978
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