Reliability analysis of a conveyor system using hybrid data

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 867-882

  Gupta, Suprakash ^a   Bhattacharya, Jayanta ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Level set; Armoured flexible conveyor; Defuzzification; Fault tree analysis; Fuzzy set; Membership function

Indexed keywords

CONVEYORS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARMOURED FLEXIBLE CONVEYOR; DEFUZZIFICATION; FAILURE PROBABILITY; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 35948965969     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.843     Document Type: Article

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