• DocumentCode
    1346547
  • Title

    Probabilistic Evaluation of Prime Implicants and Top-Events for Non-Coherent Systems

  • Author

    Inagaki, Toshiyuki ; Henley, Ernest J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept of Chemical Engineering; University of Houston; Houston, Texas 77004 USA. Present address: Institute of Electronics and Information Sciences; University of Tsukube; Ibaraki 305 JAPAN.
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1980
  • Firstpage
    361
  • Lastpage
    367
  • Abstract
    This paper develops a rigorous method for obtaining 1) the existence probability (unavailability) and 2) the unconditional occurrence (failure) intensity (s-expected number of occurrences per unit time) for prime implicants and top-events of non-coherent systems. It is shown that repair and maintenance policies for non-coherent systems must be carefully formulated since, for example, component repair can lead to system failure.
  • Keywords
    Availability; Fault location; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Safety; Tellurium; Non-coherent system; Prime implicant; Unavailability; s-Expected number of failures;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1980.5220883
  • Filename
    5220883
    • Link To Document
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