Recursive Disjoint Products: A Review of Three Algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-31, Issue 1, 1982, Pages 33-35

  Locks, Mitchell O ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximations; Coherent system; Disjoint products; Exact methods; Fault trees; Minimal cut; Minimal path; Recursion; System reliability

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0020116391     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1982.5221216     Document Type: Article

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