DocumentCode
860319
Title
Recursive formulas for the reliability of multi-state consecutive-k-out-of-n:G systems
Author
Yamamoto, Hisashi ; Zuo, Ming J. ; Akiba, Tomoaki ; Tian, Zhigang
Author_Institution
Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan
Volume
55
Issue
1
fYear
2006
fDate
3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
98
Lastpage
104
Abstract
In this paper, we provide an algorithm for evaluating the system state distribution for any multi-state consecutive-k-out-of-n:G system including the decreasing multi-state G system, the increasing multi-state G system, and other G systems. We evaluated our proposed algorithms in terms of the orders of computation time, and memory requirement. Furthermore, we conducted a numerical experiment to determine the actual computation time. Our proposed algorithm is more effective for systems with a large n.
Keywords
consecutive system reliability; multistate G system; multistate consecutive system reliability; recursive formula; state distribution system; Context modeling; Councils; Reliability theory; Consecutive-; multi-state system; recursive formula; system state distribution;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.2005.863792
Filename
1603898
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