Test duration in choice of helicopter maintenance policy

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 317-321

  Michlin, Y H ^a   Migdali, R ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Advanced System Designers Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mean time between failures ratio; Reliability centred maintenance; Sample size; Sequential testing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY;

MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES RATIO; RELIABILITY CENTRED MAINTENANCE; SAMPLE SIZES; SEQUENTIAL TESTING;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 4344609699     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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