Multi-state systems with multi-fault coverage

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1730-1739

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Amari, Suprasad V ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b Relex Software Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant system; Imperfect fault coverage; Multi fault coverage; Multi state system; Reliability; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

IMPERFECT FAULT COVERAGE; MULTI-FAULT COVERAGE; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTION;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 44349195490     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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