Active redundancy allocations in series systems

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-235

  Misra, Neeraj ^a   Misra, Amit Kumar ^a   Dhariyal, Ishwari Dutt ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE REDUNDANCY; FAILURE RATE; INCREASING CONCAVE ORDER; REVERSED FAILURE RATE; SERIES SYSTEM;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 82455205635     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: 14698951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964810000367     Document Type: Article

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