Component state-based integrated importance measure for multi-state systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 75-83

  Si, Shubin ^a   Levitin, Gregory ^b   Dui, Hongyan ^a   Sun, Shudong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Importance measure; Multi state system; Reliability; System performance; Transition rates

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY;

COMPONENT STATE; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; INTEGRATED IMPORTANCE MEASURES; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; OIL TRANSPORTATION; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; TRANSITION RATES;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 84876697307     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.02.023     Document Type: Article

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