Reliability allocation and apportionment: addressing redundancy and life-cycle cost

Two reliability analysis techniques, allocation and apportionment, have the potential to influence a system's design (a distinction is made here between allocation and apportionment). Algorithms that account for the ever increasing design complexities are constructed here for both. As designs o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nowicki, David R.
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44164
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08042009-040416/