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The Bathtub Curve and Product Failure BehaviorPart One - The Bathtub Curve, Infant Mortality and Burn-in by Dennis J. WilkinsRetired Hewlett-Packard Senior Reliability Specialist, currently a ReliaSoft Reliability Field ConsultantThis paper is adapted with permission from work done while at Hewlett-Packard. Reliability specialists often describe the lifetime of a population of products using a graphical representation called the bathtub curve. The bathtub curve consists of three periods: an infant mortality period with a decreasing failure rate followed by a normal life period (also known a