Effective component importance analysis for the maintenance of systems with common-cause failures

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 459-478

  Xing, Liudong ^a   Amari, Suprasad V ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b Relex Software Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent systems; Common cause failures; Fault trees; Importance analysis; Importance measures; Maintenance oriented

Indexed keywords

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

COHERENT SYSTEMS; COMMON-CAUSE FAILURES; IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS; IMPORTANCE MEASURES;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 36048980265     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021853930700274X     Document Type: Article

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