The failure of MTTF in availability evaluation

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 279-284

  Sun, Hairong ^a   Han, Jame J ^a  

^a Motorola Canada Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bath tub curve; Failure rate; MTTF; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; STEADY STATE AVAILABILITY; TIME VARYING FAILURE;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036129077     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2002.981655     Document Type: Article

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