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| Title: | A New Approach to System Reliability |
| Authors: | Choudhuri, Gopal
Hu, Kuolung
Afshar, Nader |
| Keywords: | Birnbaum measure of reliability importance
increasing failure rate
structure function
system reliability |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2001 |
| Publisher: | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY |
| Abstract: | Calculating system-reliability via the knowledge of structure function is not new.
Such attempts have been made in the classical 1975 book by Barlow & Proschan. But they had to compromise with the
increasing complexity of a system. This paper overcomes this problem through a new representation of the structure function,
and demonstrates that the well-known systems considered in the state-of-art follow this new representation. With this new representation, the important reliability calculations, such as Birnbaum reliability-importance, become simple. The Chaudhuri, et al. (J. Applied Probability, 1991) bounds which exploit the knowledge of structure function were implemented by our simple and easy-to-use algorithm for some s-coherent structures,viz,s-series, s-parallel, 2-out-of-3:G, bridge structure, and a fire-detector system. The Chaudhuri bounds are superior to the Min–max and
Barlow-Proschan bounds (1975). This representation is useful in implementing the Chaudhuri bounds, whi... |
| Description: | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY, VOL. 50, NO. 1, MARCH 2001 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2259/188 |
| Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles
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