Stochastic fault tree analysis with self-loop basic events

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 173-180

  Jenab, Kouroush ^a   Dhillon, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fault tree; Flow graph; Reliability model; Stochastic failure analysis

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY THEORY;

FLOW-GRAPH; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION; RELIABILITY MODEL; STOCHASTIC FAILURE ANALYSIS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 15544391132     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.842087     Document Type: Article

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