Semi-markov models with an application to power-plant reliability analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 526-532

  Perman, Mihael ^a   Senegacnik, Andrej ^a   Tuma, Matija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Availability; Markov process; Power plant operation; Semi markov process; Transition probability; Weibull holding time

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY; SERVICE LIFE; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

POWER PLANT RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEMI-MARKOV MODELS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0031342085     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.693787     Document Type: Article

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