Exponential approximation for maintained Weibull distributed component

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 260-268

  Xie, M ^a   Kong, H ^a   Goh, T N ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Decision making; Maintenance; Optimization; Reliability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EXPONENTIAL APPROXIMATION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE TIME; SPARE ALLOCATION PROBLEM;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0009907575     PISSN: 13552511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552510010346761     Document Type: Article

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