Reliability and performance of multi-state systems with propagated failures having selective effect

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 655-661

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Xing, Liudong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

Common cause failures; Multi state system; Propagated failures; Reliability block diagram; Selective effect; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; COMPLEX SERIES; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAM METHOD; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS; SYSTEM ELEMENTS; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY THEORY; ROUGH SET THEORY;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 77949656790     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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