A Study of Lifetime Optimization of Transportation System

Author

Sun, Zhan-li ; Xie, Min ; Ng, Kien Ming ; Habibullah, Mohamed Salahuddin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Volume

42

Issue

4

fYear

2012

fDate

7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1013

Lastpage

1019

Abstract

The operation process or environment usually has a significant influence on system lifetime. In this paper, a lifetime optimization approach based on linear programming (LP) is proposed to maximize the transportation system lifetime, in which a semi-Markov (SM) model is used to model the operation process. In the proposed method, we first formulate the optimization problem as an LP model that is used to find the optimal transient probability of each state. Then, an analytical method is performed to obtain the corresponding optimal sojourn-time distribution parameters of the SM process. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to a port oil transportation system to show that it can efficiently ensure that the transportation system has a long lifetime.

Keywords

Markov processes; linear programming; remaining life assessment; sea ports; transportation; lifetime optimization approach; linear programming; operation process; optimal sojourn-time distribution parameters; optimal transient probability; port oil transportation system; semiMarkov model; transportation system lifetime; Equations; Evolutionary computation; Mathematical model; Optimization; Power system reliability; Reliability; Transportation; Analytical method (AM); linear programming (LP); reliability optimization; semi-Markov (SM) model (SMM); transportation system;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1083-4427

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSMCA.2011.2172603

Filename

6092506