The integrated importance measure of multi-state coherent systems for maintenance processes

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 266-273

  Si, Shubin ^a   Dui, Hongyan ^a   Cai, Zhiqiang ^a   Sun, Shudong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Component states; integrated importance measure; maintenance cost; multi state systems

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SYSTEM; COMPONENT STATE; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; MAINTENANCE COST; MAINTENANCE DECISIONS; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; MULTI-STATE; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PARALLEL SYSTEM; SERIES SYSTEM; SYSTEM MAINTENANCE; TRANSITION RATES;

INTEGRATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84861905859     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2012.2192017     Document Type: Article

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