A method for evaluation of reliability indices for repairable circular consecutive-k-out-of- n: F systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Yam, Richard C M ^d   Zuo, Ming J ^a   Zhang, Yuan Lin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SANJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Availability; Generalized transition probability; Key components; Reliability; Repairable consecutive k out of n: F system; ROCOF

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REDUNDANCY;

RELIABILITY INDICES;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0037229005     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00204-1     Document Type: Article

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