A joint reliability-redundancy optimization approach for multi-state series-parallel systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1568-1576

  Tian, Zhigang ^a   Levitin, Gregory ^b   Zuo, Ming J ^c  

^a Adaptive Spectral GraphWavelets for Collaborative Filtering   (Canada)

^b ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multi state system; Reliability redundancy optimization; Series parallel systems; Transition rate

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT STATE; JOINT RELIABILITY; JOINT SYSTEM; KEYPOINTS; MULTI STATE; MULTI-STATE COMPONENTS; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; OPTIMAL REDUNDANCY; OPTIMAL SETS; OPTIMAL VALUES; RELIABILITY-REDUNDANCY OPTIMIZATION; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEM; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEMS; STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; STATE TRANSITIONS; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; SYSTEM COSTS; TRANSITION RATE;

OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 67649449006     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.021     Document Type: Article

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