Reliability evaluation of phased-mission systems with imperfect fault coverage and common-cause failures

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-68

  Xing, Liudong ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary decision diagram; Common cause failure; Fault tree; Imperfect fault coverage; Phased mission reliability

Indexed keywords

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; IMPERFECT FAULT COVERAGE; PHASED-MISSION RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 34047149862     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2006.890900     Document Type: Article

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