A shock model for the maintenance problem of a repairable system

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1807-1820

  Lam, Yeh ^a,b   Zhang, Yuan Lin ^c,d  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY AT QINHUANGDAO   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SANJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric process; Poisson process; Shock

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COSTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; REPAIR;

REPAIRABLE SYSTEM; SHOCK MODEL;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 1942533499     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(03)00121-7     Document Type: Article

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