Maintenance optimisation of a multi-state series-parallel system considering economic dependence and state-dependent inspection intervals

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 248-259

  Zhou, Yifan ^a   Zhang, Zhisheng ^a   Lin, Tian Ran ^b   Ma, Lin ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimisation; Economic dependence; Series parallel systems; State dependent inspection intervals; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INSPECTION; OPTIMIZATION;

ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION; INSPECTION COSTS; INSPECTION INTERVALS; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; MULTI-STATE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC MAINTENANCE; OPTIMISATION METHOD; OPTIMISATIONS; PER UNIT; SEARCH SPACES; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEM; STATE-DEPENDENT; STOCHASTIC ORDERINGS; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84871801708     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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