Method to prevent excessive numbers of Markov states in Markov models for quantitative safety and reliability assessment

ISA Transactions

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 363-369

  Knegtering, Bert ^a   Brombacher, Aarnout C ^b  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; INDUSTRY; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR;

BLOCK DIAGRAM; CALCULATION EFFORTS; PRACTICAL BENEFITS; QUANTITATIVE; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; GUIDELINES; INDUSTRY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0033699673     PISSN: 00190578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-0578(99)00041-5     Document Type: Article

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