Predicting the time to failure of a randomly degrading component by a hybrid Monte Carlo and possibilistic method

2008 International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management, PHM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Baraldi, Piero ^a   Popescu, Irina Crenguta ^a   Zio, Enrico ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aleatory uncertainty; Epistemic uncertainty; Fatigue crack growth; Monte Carlo; Possibility; Prognostics; Time to failure prediction

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DEGRADATION; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MONTE CARLO METHODS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; MONTE CARLO; POSSIBILITY; PROGNOSTICS; TIME TO FAILURE PREDICTION;

CRACKS;

EID: 58449129138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PHM.2008.4711455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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