Maintenance free operating period - an alternative measure to MTBF and failure rate for specifying reliability?

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-131

  Dinesh Kumar, U ^a   Knezevic, J ^a   Crocker, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure rate; Maintenance free operating period (MFOP); Maintenance recovery period (MRP); Mean operating time between failure (MTBF); Reliability; Renewal theory

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY AIRCRAFT;

MAINTENANCE FREE OPERATING PERIODS (MFOP); MAINTENANCE RECOVERY PERIOD (MRP); MEAN OPERATING TIME BETWEEN FAILURE (MTBF); RENEWAL THEORY;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0033117091     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00048-9     Document Type: Article

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