Optimal series-parallel topology of multi-state system with two failure modes

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 93-107

  Levitin, Gregory ^a  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Multi state system; Optimal configuration; Two failure modes; Universal moment generating function

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

MULTI-STATE SYSTEMS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036642006     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00034-0     Document Type: Article

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