A Comparative Analysis of Three Unit Redundant Systems with Three Types of Failures

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3337-3349

  Yusuf, Ibrahim ^a   Hussaini, Nafiu ^a  

^a BAYERO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Availability; Mean time to system failure (MTSF); Profit; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900032999     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-013-0908-3     Document Type: Article

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