A new approach to modeling the system reliability: Dynamic reliability block diagrams

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 189-195

  Distefano, Salvatore ^a   Liudong, Xing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams (DRBD); Dynamic systems; Modeling tools; Reliability

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS (DRBD); LOAD SHARING POLICIES; MODELING TOOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETRI NETS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 34250168669     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2006.1677373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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