A Method for Computing Complex System Reliability |
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Authors: | Kim Young H. Case Kenneth E. Ghare P. M. |
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Affiliation: | Department of Industrial Management, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.; |
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Abstract: | The computation of reliability becomes quite tedious when one has to deal with a non series-parallel system. In this paper a proposed method is developed by taking the system as a probabilistic graph in which a component of the system is represented by a branch. The proposed method is composed of three phases: Phase 1 involves the reduction of all series, parallel, and series-parallel components to an irreducible non series-parallel system. In Phase 2 the algorithm enumerates all possible paths from the source to the sink of the graph. Phase 3 then computes the system reliability based on the path information obtained in Phase 2. An example of the use of the method to compute system reliability is given. |
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