Failure rate modeling using equipment inspection data

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 782-787

  Brown, Richard E ^a   Frimpong, George ^b   Willis, H Lee ^b  

^a KEMA Inc   (United States)

^b ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Equipment failure rate modeling; Inspection based ranking; Predictive reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSPECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

EQUIPMENT INSPECTION DATA; PREDICTIVE RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 2542531519     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2004.825824     Document Type: Article

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