Reliability allocation through cost minimization

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 106-111

  Charles Elegbede, A O ^a   Chu, Chengbin ^a   Adjallah, Kondo H ^a   Yalaoui, Farouk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Cost optimization; Redundancy allocation; Reliability allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL-SERIES SYSTEMS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0037333206     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.807242     Document Type: Article

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