Availability based spare optimization using renewal process

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-223

  Dinesh Kumar, U ^a   Knezevic, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RENEWAL PROCESS; SPARE COMPONENTS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0031988659     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00155-5     Document Type: Article

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