• DocumentCode
    1343183
  • Title

    Redundancy Optimization Through Simplex Pattern Search

  • Author

    Pal, M.N. ; Bhattacharjee, Manish C.

  • Author_Institution
    Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; P.O. Box 16757; Calcutta 700 027, INDIA; Assistant Professor of O.R. and Production Management.
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1978
  • fDate
    6/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    120
  • Lastpage
    123
  • Abstract
    Optimal allocation of redundancy in a series system with separately maintained repairable subsystems subject to multiple constraints is investigated for maximizing system reliability using simplex pattern search and separable programming. The constraints, besides the usual ones, include one based on s-expected busy periods of the maintenance facilities. A numerical example illustrates the method.
  • Keywords
    Costs; Dynamic programming; Integer linear programming; Maintenance; Mathematical programming; Queueing analysis; Redundancy; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Upper bound; Busy period; Redundancy optimization; Repairable subsystems; Separable programming; Simplex pattern search;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1978.5220277
  • Filename
    5220277