Methods of uncertainty analysis in prognostics

International Journal of Performability Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-330

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

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fatigue crack growth; Monte Carlo simulation; Possibility; Probability; Prognostics; Reliability prediction; Time to failure prediction; Uncertainty representation and propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955866842     PISSN: 09731318     EISSN: 29938341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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