Evaluation of allowed outage time considering a set of plant configurations

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 259-266

  Čepin, Marko ^a   Martorell, Sebastián ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allowed outage time; Probabilistic safety assessment; Risk; Safety; Technical specifications

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIFICATIONS;

PLANT CONFIGURATIONS;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 0036891162     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00168-0     Document Type: Article

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