The impact of the operating environment on the design of redundant configurations

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-160

  Marseguerra, M ^a   Padovani, E ^a   Zio, E ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dependent failures; Environmental stress; Redundancy design

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DEPENDENT FAILURES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; REDUNDANCY DESIGN; REDUNDANT CONFIGURATIONS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 0033079751     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00034-9     Document Type: Article

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