Reliability modeling and analysis of complex hierarchical systems

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 477-492

  Xing, Liudong ^a,b  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Common cause failures; Decomposition and aggregation; Dynamic fault trees; Hierarchical systems; Modular imperfect coverage; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMON-CAUSE FAILURES; DECOMPOSITION AND AGGREGATION; DYNAMIC FAULT TREES; MODULAR IMPERFECT COVERAGE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 29144462463     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539305001963     Document Type: Article

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