Comparing the importance of system components by some structural characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-65

  Meng, Fan C ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Component criticality; Reliability importance measure; Structural importance measure

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPONENT CRITICALITY; RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE MEASURE; STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE MEASURE;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0030104164     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.488917     Document Type: Article

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