Reliability-redundancy allocation for multi-state series-parallel systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 303-310

  Tian, Zhigang ^a   Zuo, Ming J ^b   Huang, Hongzhong ^c  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Multi state series parallel system; Optimization; Reliability redundancy allocation; State distribution

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; STAGES;

COMPONENT STATES; MULTI STATE (MSS); OPTIMAL DESIGNS; OPTIMAL REDUNDANCY; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION; RELIABILITY-REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEMS; SOLUTION APPROACH; SYSTEM UTILITY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 45549108293     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.920871     Document Type: Article

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