Redundancy of structural systems with and without maintenance: An approach based on lifetime functions

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 520-533

  Okasha, Nader M ^a   Frangopol, Dan M ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Lifetime functions; Lifetime performance; Maintenance; Optimization; Redundancy; Structural systems

Indexed keywords

EXISTING STRUCTURE; LIFETIME FUNCTIONS; LIFETIME PERFORMANCE; LIFETIME RELIABILITY; MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE MAINTENANCE; STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM COLLAPSE;

BENCHMARKING; BRIDGES; MAINTAINABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77649178982     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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