ANALYSIS OF k-out-of-n : G SYSTEM WITH HUMAN ERRORS, COMMON CAUSE AND TIME DEPENDENT SYSTEM REPAIR-RATE

M. A. El-Damcese (Egypt)

Received December 28, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: reliability, availability, human error, common-cause failure, time dependent system repair-rate, Markov method.