Bolstering components for maximizing system lifetime

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 497-509

  Mi, Jie ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active redundancy; Burn in; k out of n system; Power Weibull model; Standby redundancy; Stochastic order

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; SERVICE LIFE;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032141440     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199808)45:5<497::AID-NAV4>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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