Calculating and addressing uncertainty for risk-based allowable outage times

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-47

  Smith, C L ^a   Knudsen, J K ^a   Calley, M B ^a  

^a Lockheed Martin Idaho Technology Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BOOLEAN DIFFERENCE; RISK-BASED ALLOWABLE OUTAGE TIMES (AOT);

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0032690658     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00018-6     Document Type: Article

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