Balancing burn-in and mission times in environments with catastrophic and repairable failures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1314-1321

  Bebbington, Mark ^a   Lai, Chin Diew ^a   Zitikis, Ričardas ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burn in; Curvature; Reliability; Repairs

Indexed keywords

BURN-IN; BURN-IN TIME; CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; CURVATURE; CURVATURE FUNCTIONS; DATA SETS; GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATIONS; MISSION SUCCESS; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; REPAIRABLE FAILURES;

DATA VISUALIZATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 67349249425     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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