A deteriorating two-system with two repair modes and sojourn times phase-type distributed

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Montoro Cazorla, Delia ^a   Pérez Ocón, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Availability; Corrective maintenance; Markov process; Markovian degradation; Phase type distribution; Preemption; Preventive maintenance; Rate of occurrence of failures; Repairable system

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; DEGRADATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REPAIR; VECTORS;

CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE; MARKOVIAN DISTRIBUTION; PHASE-TYPE DISTRIBUTION; PREEMPTION; RATE OF OCCURRANCE OF FAILURES; REPAIRABLE SYSTEM;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 24644470523     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2003.12.013     Document Type: Article

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