Risk-Based, genetic algorithm approach to optimize outage maintenance schedule

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 601-609

  Hadavi, S Mohammad Hadi ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS;

OUTAGE MAINTENANCE; PLANT SHUTDOWN;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 40649089102     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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