Reliability and availability evaluation for highly meshed network systems: Status of the art and new perspectives

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 104-111

  Carpignano, Andrea ^a   Piccini, Michele ^a   Gargiulo, Maurizio ^a   Ponta, Andrea ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Azienda Energetica Metropolitana SpA Torino   (Italy)

Author keywords

Modelling and simulation; Network meshed systems; Risk assessment Analysis

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; GASES; GRAPH THEORY; HEATING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; HEAT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; HEATING NETWORK; MESHED NETWORK SYSTEM;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036127322     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2002.981627     Document Type: Article

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