Aging properties of the additive and proportional hazard mixing models

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 165-172

  Badia F G ^a   Berrade, M D ^a   Campos, Clemente A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Additive hazard model; Failure rate; Failure rate average; Mixtures; Proportional hazard model

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; THEOREM PROVING;

FAILURE RATES;

AGING OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0036837714     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00156-4     Document Type: Article

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