Life Cycle Reliability Engineering

Life Cycle Reliability Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-517

  Yang, Guangbin ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 84867765045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470117880     Document Type: Book

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