The use of imprecise component reliability distributions in reliability calculations

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-144

  Roberts, Ian D ^a,b   Samue, Andrew E ^a,b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distribution; Fuzzy; Parameter; Weibull

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT RELIABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY PREDICTION;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0030108703     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.488932     Document Type: Article

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