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Selected Readings

1996 Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, “Cumulative
Indexes,” page cx-29 for LCC references, available from Evans Associates, 804
Vickers Avenue, Durhan, NC 27701.
Abernethy, Robert B. The New Weibull Handbook, 2nd Edition, Gulf Publishing
Company, Houston, TX, 1996.
Barringer, H. Paul and David P. Weber, “Where’s My Data For Making Reliability
Improvements,” Fourth International Conference on Process Plant Reliability,
Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, TX, 1995.
Barringer, H. Paul 1996a, “Download free Monte Carlo software,” http:llwww.bar-
ringer1 .corn.
Basringer, H. Paul 1996b, “Weibull failure datubase,” http://wwW.barringerl .corn.
Barringer, H. Paul 1996c, “Download free Life-Cycle Cost software,”
http://www.barringerl .corn.
Bloch, Heinz P. and Fred K. Geitner, Practical Machinery Management for Process
Plants, Volume 2: Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting, 2nd Edition,
Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, TX, 1994.
Blanchard, B. S., “Design To Cost, Life-Cycle Cost,” I991 Tutorial Notes Annual
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, available from Evans Associates, 804
Vickers Avenue, Durham, NC 27701,1991.
Blanchard, €3. S., Logistics Engineering and Management, 4th Edition, Prentice-
Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992.
Blanchard, B. S., Dinesh Verma, Elmer L. Peterson, Maintainability: A Key to Effec-
tive Serviceability and Maintenance Management, Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, 1995.
Blanchard, B. S., W. J. Fabrycky, Systems Engineering and Analysis, 2nd Edition,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990.