Hoang Pham (Editor)

Hoang Pham, PhD
Rutgers University
Piscataway
New Jersey, USA

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Handbook of reliability engineering
1. Reliability (Engineering)
I. Pham, Hoang
620 ?.00452
ISBN 1852334533

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Handbook of reliability engineering/Hoang Pham (ed.).
p.cm.
ISBN 1-85233-453-3 (alk. paper)
1. Reliability (Engineering)-Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Pham, Hoang.
TA169.H358 2003
620 ?.00452 dc21 2002030652

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