A general imperfect repair model considering time-dependent repair effectiveness

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-100

  Fuqing, Yuan ^a   Kumar, Uday ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Failure process simulation; imperfect repair models; model selection; repair effectiveness; virtual age process

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; CUMULATIVE NUMBER; FAILURE PROCESS SIMULATION; IMPERFECT REPAIR; MODEL SELECTION; NEW MODEL; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SIMULATION METHODS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT FUNCTIONS; VIRTUAL AGE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; REPAIR; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84858161113     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2011.2182222     Document Type: Article

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