Designing optimal degradation tests via multi-objective genetic algorithms

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-94

  Marseguerra, Marzio ^a   Zio, Enrico ^a   Cipollone, Maurizio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Degradation tests; Genetic algorithms; Multi objective optimisation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037224578     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00198-9     Document Type: Article

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