Availability and maintenance of series systems subject to imperfect repair and correlated failure and repair

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1706-1722

  Wang, Hongzhou ^a   Pham, Hoang ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Availability; Correlated failure and repair; Imperfect repair; Maintenance; Series system

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CORRELATION THEORY; COST ACCOUNTING; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; REPAIR; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

CORRELATED FAILURE AND REPAIRS; IMPERFECT REPAIRS; OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE POLICIES; SERIES SYSTEMS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33746790739     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.03.030     Document Type: Article

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