Calculating mean system-failure frequency with prescribed accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-207

  Schneeweiss, Winfrid G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximation; Bonferroni inequality; Fault tree; Mean failure frequency; Mincut

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

BONFERRONI INEQUALITY; MEAN SYSTEM FAILURE FREQUENCY (MSFF); MEAN TIME TO FAILURE (MTTF); MEAN TIME TO REPAIR (MTTR); MINCUT;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0031167352     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.589947     Document Type: Article

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