Joint importance of multistate systems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-75

  Wu, Shaomin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birnbaum importance; Joint reliability importance; Joint structural importance; Multistate system; Structural importance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY;

BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE; JOINT RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE; JOINT STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE; MULTISTATE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 23144446543     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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