Data mapping and the prediction of common cause failure probability

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 291-296

  Xie, Liyang ^a   Zhou, Jinyu ^a   Wang, Xuemin ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Common cause failure; Data mapping; Failure probability estimation; Load strength interference; System reliability

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REDUNDANCY;

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; DATA MAPPING; FAILURE PROBABILITY; FAILURE PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; LOAD-STRENGTH INTERFERENCE; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 22444435766     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.847244     Document Type: Article

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