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4 - Reliability Block Diagram

from Part II - Non-State-Space (Combinatorial) Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2017

Kishor S. Trivedi
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
Andrea Bobbio
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
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Reliability and Availability Engineering
Modeling, Analysis, and Applications
, pp. 105 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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