Accession Number:

ADA167607

Title:

Survey of Soviet Work in Reliability.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Rukhin,Andrew L.

Report Date:

1986-04-29

Pagination or Media Count:

21.0

Abstract:

We review the research of Soviet school in reliability theory for the last twenty years. The main subjects under review are complex systems and their reliability, families with monotone failure rate, optimal maintenance and control, and statistical problems of reliability theory 121 defs.. Keywords Coherent systems, Families with increasing failure rate, Optimal control, Standby items, Confidence intervals, and Exponential distribution.

Descriptors:

• *RELIABILITY
• MAINTENANCE
• USSR
• CONTROL
• OPTIMIZATION
• THEORY
• STATISTICS
• COHERENCE
• FAILURE
• RATES
• SURVEYS
• EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• CONFIDENCE LIMITS
• AUDIO TONES
• INTERVALS

Subject Categories:

• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE