Defining mean time-to-failure in a particular failure-state for multi-failure-state systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 221-228

  Bukowski, Julia V ^a,b   Goble, William M ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Villanova University   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Fail dangerous; Fail safe; Markov model; Mean time to failure; Mean time to first passage

Indexed keywords

FAIL-DANGEROUS; FAIL-SAFE; MARKOV MODEL; MEAN TIME TO FIRST PASSAGE; MEAN TIME-TO-FAILURE; MULTI-FAILURE-STATE SYSTEMS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; REPAIR;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0035373319     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.963132     Document Type: Article

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