Measures of component importance in repairable multistate systems - A numerical study

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1680-1690

  Natvig, Bent ^a   Huseby, Arne B ^a   Reistadbakk, Mads O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Barlow Proschan measure; Birnbaum measure; Discrete event simulation; Importance measures; Natvig measure; Repairable systems

Indexed keywords

BARLOW-PROSCHAN MEASURE; BIRNBAUM MEASURE; DISCRETE EVENTS; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; NATVIG MEASURE; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 80455173918     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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