Birnbaum and criticality measures of component contribution to the failure of phased missions

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1861-1866

  Andrews, J D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birnbaum; Criticality; Fault tree analysis; Importance measures; Phased mission

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MISSILES; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BIRNBAUM; COMPONENT IMPORTANCE; CRITICALITY; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; IMPORTANCE MEASURES; IN-PHASE; PHASE FAILURE; PHASED MISSION; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; SYSTEM FAILURES;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

EID: 49949099521     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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