Exact Reliability Formulas for Linear and Circular m-Consecutive-k-Out-of-n:F Systems

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 657-660

  Makri, Frosso S ^a   Philippou, Andreas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ALGEBRA; LINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CIRCULAR SYSTEMS; LINEAR CONSECUTIVE SYSTEMS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0030148243     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0026-2714(95)00153-0     Document Type: Article

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