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Optimizing Trade-Offs of Reliability vs Weight |
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| Authors: | Herron D. P. |
| Affiliation: | Central Engineering Laboratories, FMC Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif.; |
| Abstract: | The necessary mathematical conditions are derived for maximizing system reliability for a given system weight or minimizing system weight for a given reliability. Cost may also be introduced. Several efficient methods of calculation are reviewed for determining the optimized reliability-weight relations. |
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