Reliability and availability analysis for two non-identical unit parallel systems with common cause failures and human errors

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 747-752

  Sridharan, V ^a   Mohanavadivu, P ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY;

HUMAN ERRORS; PARALLEL SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031148228     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-2714(96)00090-X     Document Type: Article

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