DYNAMIC RELIABILITY-ANALYSIS OF COHERENT MULTISTATE SYSTEMS

被引:137
作者
XUE, JN
YANG, K
机构
[1] Wayne State University, Detroit
[2] Wayne State University, Detroit
关键词
DYNAMIC RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; BINARY-STATE RELIABILITY; MULTISTATE RELIABILITY; FAILURE RATE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION;
D O I
10.1109/24.476002
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
This paper generalizes 2-state (binary-state) reliability parameters 'R(t), F(t), lambda(t), and mean-time-to-failure' to multi-state reliability parameters 'R(ti), G(t,i), lambda(t,i), mean-life-span-at-specified-performance-level(i), for each state', By using these generalized reliability parameters, multi-state reliability dynamic analysis can be transformed to a set of 2-state reliability dynamic analyses, Then, we extend some theoretical results in 2-state reliability analysis to the multi-state case, Measures for evaluating performance degradation of multi-state system are developed, By combining Markov processes and s-coherent multistate system structure functions, the dynamic multi-state reliability can be analyzed. Several examples are given.
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页码:683 / 688
页数:6
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