A Heuristic Method for Determining Optimal Reliability Allocation

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-26, Issue 3, 1977, Pages 156-161

  Nakagawa, Yuji ^a   Nakashima, Kyoichi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational experience; Computational procedure; Heuristic method; Optimal reliability allocation

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0017524176     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1977.5220101     Document Type: Article

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