New insights on multi-state component criticality and importance

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 894-904

  Ramirez Marquez, Jose E ^a   Rocco, Claudio M ^b   Gebre, Bethel A ^a   Coit, David W ^c   Tortorella, Michael ^c  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Component criticality; Importance measures; Multi state system; Reliability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

COMPONENT CRITICALITY; IMPORTANCE MEASURES; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; UNSATISFIED DEMAND INDEX;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646474868     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.08.009     Document Type: Article

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