Some notes on probabilities and non-probabilistic reliability measures

Advances in Safety and Reliability - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2005

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1645-1654

  Rakowsky, U K ^a,b  

^a Vossloh Kiepe   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

NON-PROBABILISTIC RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING;

PROBABILITY; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 45749095305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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