An improvement to the total hazard method for system reliability simulation

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-196

  Cancela, Héctor ^a,b   El Khadiri, Mohamed ^c  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b IN CO Facultad de Ingenieria   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

MONTE CARLO ESTIMATORS; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

HAZARDS;

EID: 0030545276     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964800004253     Document Type: Article

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