Reliability and availability of a standby system with common cause failure

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-363

  Hajeeh, Mohammed A ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Availability; Cost; Mean time to failure; MTTF; Standby

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960659240     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2011.041348     Document Type: Article

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