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Warranty and Maintenance

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Murthy, D.N.P., Jack, N. (2003). Warranty and Maintenance. In: Pham, H. (eds) Handbook of Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-85233-841-5_17

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