Indirect assessment of system reliability

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-62

  Ebrahimi, Nader B ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative damage model; Diffusion process; Hitting time; Ito process; Log normal process; Maximum likelihood estimate; Stochastic process; Stress and strength system

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CUMULATIVE DAMAGE MODELS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037333161     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.805779     Document Type: Article

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