Using equivalent failure rates to assess the unavailability of an ageing system

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 82-88

  Lefebvre, Yannick ^a  

^a R and D/MRI Section   (France)

Author keywords

Ageing; Dynamic reliability; Maintenance; Monte Carlo simulation; Non homogeneous Markov process; Unavailability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTAINABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY;

AGEING SYSTEM; DYNAMIC RELIABILITY; UNAVAILABILITY;

AVAILABILITY;

EID: 0037255954     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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