Preventive maintenance of multi-state system with phase-type failure time distribution and non-zero inspection time

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-344

  Chen, Dongyan ^a   Cao, Yonghuan ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^a   Hong, Yiguang ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Availability; Condition based preventive maintenance; Kernel matrix; Markov chain; Markov regenerative process (MRGP); Semi Markov process

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSPECTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; REPAIR;

KERNEL MATRIX; MAINTENANCE POLICY; MARKOV REGENERATIVE PROCESS; MULTISTATE SYSTEM;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0242273406     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539303001172     Document Type: Article

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