Citation

Limnios N. Reliab. Eng. 1987; 17(2): 83-88.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(87)90007-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A simple method for predicting failure rate of the parallel and series non-repairable systems is presented. Relations for steady-state and time-dependent failure rate are derived. The use of these relations to obtain the steady-state failure rate of complex systems is illustrated.