Survey of Soviet Work in Reliability

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.

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