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.
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;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1980.5220883
