Fuzzy reliability in conceptual design

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 360-364

  Nachtmann, Heather ^a   Chimka, Justin R ^a  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Fuzzy set theory; Mission cost; Mission reliability; Prediction

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FUZZY RELIABILITY; MISSION COST; MISSION RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0037255957     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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