A load sharing system reliability model with managed component degradation

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 721-730

  Ye, Zhisheng ^a   Revie, Matthew ^b   Walls, Lesley ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cumulative work load; degradation failure; gamma process; load sharing system; managed degradation

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT DEGRADATION; DEGRADATION CONDITION; DEGRADATION FAILURE; GAMMA PROCESS; LOAD SHARING SYSTEMS; LONG-RUN AVERAGE COST; STATIONARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS; WORK LOADS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84906951114     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2014.2315965     Document Type: Article

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