Availability and reliability of system with dependent components and time-varying failure and repair rates

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 151-158

  Zhang, Tieling ^b   Horigome, Michio ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dependent failure; Markov chain; Repairable system; System availability; System reliability; Time varying failure rate

Indexed keywords

REPAIRABLE SYSTEM; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TIME VARYING FAILURE RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035373135     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.963122     Document Type: Article

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