Review and classification of reliability measures for multistate and continuum models

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1171-1180

  Brunelle, Russell D ^a   Kapur, Kailash C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CONTINUUM MODELS; CUSTOMER-CENTERED RELIABILITY MEASURES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0033355561     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007600314061     Document Type: Article

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