Reliability of a load-sharing fc-out-of-n:G system: Non-iid components with arbitrary distributions

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 279-284

  Liu, Huartlin ^a  

^a Queues Enforth Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Fc out of n:g system; Load sharing; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ARBITRARY FAILURE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; LOAD SHARING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODEL;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032157029     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.740502     Document Type: Article

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