On-line reliability estimation of individual components, using degradation signals

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 403-412

  Chinnam, Ratna Babu ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

MEAN TIME TO FAILURE (MTTF); SELF ORGANIZING MAPS (SOM);

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 0033327260     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.814523     Document Type: Article

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