ON the increase of the expected lifetime by parallel redundancy

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-179

  Xie, Min ^a   Lai, Chin Diew ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Convexity; Effectiveness; Life distribution; Mean time to failure; Parallel redundancy; Reliability improvement; Reliability theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242400432     PISSN: 02175959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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