The preliminary investigation of system reliability and maintainability to develop availability sound designs

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 459-471

  Tsai, Yuo Tern ^a  

^a DE LIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Availability; Design; Maintainability; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844496649     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544820500287383     Document Type: Article

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