Renewal-type equations for a general repair process

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 235-245

  Dagpunar, J S ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General repair; Maintenance; Renewal process; Virtual age

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

RENEWAL PROCESSES;

REPAIR;

EID: 0031176010     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1638(199707)13:4<235::AID-QRE99>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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