Title :
A Direct Method for Maximizing the System Reliability
Author :
Sharma, Jaydev ; Venkateswaran, K.V.
Author_Institution :
Graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
Abstract :
A simple computational procedure has been developed for allocating redundancy among subsystems so as to achieve maximum reliability of a multistage system subject to multiple constraints which need not be linear. The computational time is quite short. Two examples are shown.
Keywords :
Constraint optimization; Costs; Design engineering; Dynamic programming; Linear programming; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Vectors;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1971.5216146
