Generalized reliability bounds for coherent structures

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 778-794

  Boutsikas, Michael V ^a   Koutras, Markos V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Association; Binary coherent structures; Cut sets; Path sets; Reliability bounds; Two dimensional consecutive k1 k2 out of n1 n2 system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034337846     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1014842836     Document Type: Article

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