Analysis of on-line maintenance strategies for k-out-of-n standby safety systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-155

  Lu, Lixuan ^a   Jiang, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) Nuclear Power Plants; Corrective maintenance; Dual failure modes; Predictive maintenance; Preventive maintenance; Safety; Spurious operation; Unavailability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CANADIAN DEUTERIUM URANIUM (CANDU) NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE; DUAL FAILURE MODES; PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE; SPURIOUS OPERATION; UNAVAILABILITY MODEL;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750307919     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.11.012     Document Type: Article

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