Block diagram method for analyzing multi-state systems with uncovered failures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 727-734

  Levitin, Gregory ^a  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Multi state system; Performance; Uncovered failure; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; UNCOVERED FAILURE; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846390943     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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