Reasoning in reliability-centred maintenance based on a Dempster—Shafer approach

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability

Volumn 222, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 605-612

  Rakowsky, U K ^a   Gocht, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer RCM; fire detection and extinguishing system; modelling; reliability centred maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990385288     PISSN: 1748006X     EISSN: 17480078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/1748006XJRR129     Document Type: Article

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