Reliability analysis for systems in a random environment

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1021-1031

  Petakos, Kyriakos ^a   Tsapelas, Theothosios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Circular consecutive k out of n:F system; Failure models; k out of n:F system; Linear k within r consecutlve out of n:F system; Shock models; System reliability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

PARALLEL SUBSYSTEMS; SHOCK MODELS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0031295249     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002190020010169X     Document Type: Article

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