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Professor Toshio Nakagawa
Aichi Institute of Technology, 1247 Yachigusa, Yaguasa-cho,
Toyota 470-0392, Japan

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Nakagawa, Toshio
Maintenance theory of reliability. (Springer series in reliability engineering)
1. Maintainability (Engineering) 2. Reliability (Engineering)
3. Maintenance
I. Title

620 ?.0045

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nakagawa, Toshio, 1942
Maintenance theory of reliability/Toshio Nakagawa.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-85233-939-X

1. Reliability (Engineering) I. Title.

TA169.N354 2005

620 ?.00452 dc22

2005042766

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