Component reliability criticality or importance measures for systems with degrading components

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-12

  Peng, Hao ^a   Coit, David W ^b   Feng, Qianmei ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Degrading components; importance measures; system reliability models

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT CRITICALITY; COMPONENT RELIABILITY; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DEGRADING COMPONENTS; DISCRETE STATE; EFFECTIVE TOOL; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; MAINTENANCE MODELS; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; RELIABILITY MODEL; SYSTEM RELIABILITY MODELS; TIMELY FEEDBACK;

RELIABILITY; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

EID: 84858149435     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2011.2182256     Document Type: Article

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