Importance Measures for Non-Coherent-System Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 301-310

  Beeson, Sally ^a   Andrews, John D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault tree; Importance measure; Noncoherent; Structure function

Indexed keywords

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FLANGES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE RELIEF VALVES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

IMPORTANCE MEASURES; NONCOHERENT SYSTEMS; QUANTIFICATION PROCESSES; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0347603323     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2003.816397     Document Type: Article

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