Periodic inspection optimization model for a complex repairable system

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 944-952

  Taghipour, Sharareh ^a   Banjevic, Dragan ^a   Jardine, Andrew K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hard failures; Maintenance; Optimization; Periodic inspection; Repairable systems; Soft failures

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPLEX REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; FINITE TIME HORIZON; HARD FAILURES; PERIODIC INSPECTION; PERIODIC INSPECTION INTERVALS; RECURSIVE PROCEDURE; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; SOFT FAILURE;

INSPECTION;

EID: 79952190163     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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