Reliability and mean time to failure of unrepairable systems with fuzzy random lifetimes

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1009-1026

  Liu, Ying ^a   Tang, Wansheng ^a   Zhao, Ruiqing ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy random variables; Fuzzy variables; Mean time to failure; Reliability; Unrepairable systems

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLES; MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; UNREPAIRABLE SYSTEMS;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348909608     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2006.890677     Document Type: Article

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