Preventive Replacement in Systems with Dependent Components

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 230-238

  Albin, Susan L ^a   Chao, Seng ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependent component; Deteriorating component; Maintenance; Preventive replacement

Indexed keywords

INSPECTION; OPTIMIZATION 8131520013VX 23(IEEE CAT N; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 0026881990     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.257786     Document Type: Article

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