Availability analysis of periodically inspected systems with random walk model

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 860-871

  Cui, Lirong ^a   Xie, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Instantaneous availability; Periodic inspection; Random walk; Repair or replacement; Stochastic process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035528745     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1011994177     Document Type: Article

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