Reliability of multi-trigger multi-state systems subject to competing failures

Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, ICQR2MSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 29-35

  Wang, Chaonan ^a   Xing, Liudong ^a   Levitin, Gregory ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

combinatorial method; competing failures; functional dependence; multi state systems; reliability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL METHOD; COMPETING FAILURE; FAILURE ISOLATION; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; MEMORY SYSTEMS; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS;

MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84866614748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICQR2MSE.2012.6246182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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