A numerical simulation approach for reliability analysis of fault-tolerant repairable system

Proceedings of 2009 8th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, ICRMS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 191-196

  Liang, Xiaofeng ^a   Yi, Hong ^a   Zhang, Yufang ^a   Li, Dan ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic fault tree; Fault tolerant repairable system; Minimal sequence cut sets; Numerical simulation; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; CUT SETS; DYNAMIC FAULT TREES; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FAULT-TOLERANT; FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEMS; MARKOV MODEL; MARKOV PROPERTY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RELIABILITY INDEX; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; STATE SPACE; SYSTEM STRUCTURES;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; EXPLOSIONS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MAINTAINABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 77955963347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRMS.2009.5270210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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