An optimal age-usage maintenance strategy containing a failure penalty for application to railway tracks

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 407-417

  Shafiee, Mahmood ^a   Patriksson, Michael ^b   Chukova, Stefanka ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

age based PM; failure penalty; million gross tons (MGT); Railway track; usage based PM

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROADS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; TRANSPORTATION;

AGE-BASED; FAILURE THRESHOLDS; MAINTENANCE POLICY; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; MILLION GROSS TONS (MGT); RAILWAY TRACK; RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION; RELIABILITY AND SAFETIES;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84954326713     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: 20413017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954409714543337     Document Type: Article

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