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Reliability Analysis of Multistate Systems with Multistate Components

다항상태 부품으로 구성된 다항상태 시스템의 신뢰도 분석에 관한 연구

  • Published : 2007.06.30
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Abstract

Most of systems used in real fields are considered as multistate systems with multistate components. As one of methods for performance evaluation of the system, reliability analysis has been popularly used. In this paper, we propose an improved reliability analysis method which is based on state space decomposition method of Aven (1985). In deriving upper bounds, our method uses sets of unspecified states whereas Aven (1985) excludes sets of unacceptance states. Also, closer lower bounds to an exact reliability are obtained by considering of importance of min-path vectors.

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