Taguchi's approach for reliability and safety assessments in the stage separation process of a multistage launch vehicle

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1526-1541

  Singaravelu, J ^a   Jeyakumar, D ^a   Nageswara Rao, B ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Jet damping; Launch vehicle; Pyro; Relative distance; Relative velocity; Separation motors; Separation system; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

JET DAMPING; LAUNCH VEHICLE; PYRO; RELATIVE DISTANCE; RELATIVE VELOCITY; SEPARATION SYSTEM;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; DAMPING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MISSILE LAUNCHING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOTORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TAGUCHI METHODS; VEHICLES;

LAUNCHING;

EID: 67649452149     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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