Optimal Design of Systems With Competing Failure Modes

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 251-254

  Pham, Hoang ^a   Malon, David M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

competing failure modes; cost; k out of n system; majority system; mean system; optimal design; optimization; system reliability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

COMPETING FAILURE MODES; FAILURE MODES; MAJORITY SYSTEMS; MEAN SYSTEM COST; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0028447910     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.295001     Document Type: Article

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