The Debt Trap: How Deferred Fixes Fuel Reliability Debt

This article introduces the concept of reliability debt—the accumulated cost of deferred reliability decisions—and presents a quantitative, cross-domain framework for identifying, measuring, and mitigating its impact across the system lifecycle.

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IEEE reliability magazine
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2025-08-20
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https://doi.org/10.1109/mrl.2025.3593865
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Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
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The Debt Trap: How Deferred Fixes Fuel Reliability Debt

Mohamad Kassab, João Paulo Fernandes
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The Debt Trap: How Deferred Fixes Fuel Reliability Debt

Mohamad Kassab, João Paulo Fernandes
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This article introduces the concept of reliability debt—the accumulated cost of deferred reliability decisions—and presents a quantitative, cross-domain framework for identifying, measuring, and mitigating its impact across the system lifecycle.

IEEE reliability magazine Vol. 2(3)
New York University Abu Dhabi (AE)
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