Parametric study of sectional models involving two weibull distributions

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-159

  Murthy, D N P ^b   Jiang, R ^a,b  

^a Changsha Communication Institute   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FAILURE RATE FUNCTIONS; SECTIONAL MODELS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0031130628     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00114-7     Document Type: Article

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