The analysis of failure data in the presence of critical and degraded failures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-107

  Haugen, Knut ^a   Hokstad, Per ^a   Sandtorv, Helge ^a  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS;

MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURE; MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; OFFSHORE RELIABILITY DATA;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031271560     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00084-1     Document Type: Article

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