• DocumentCode
    1348456
  • Title

    Quadrilateral-Star Transformation: An Aid for Reliability Evaluation of Large Complex Systems

  • Author

    Gadani, J.P. ; Misra, K.B.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering; L.D. College of Engg.; Ahmedabad 380015 INDIA.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1982
  • fDate
    4/1/1982 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    49
  • Lastpage
    50
  • Abstract
    Although delta and star transformations are usually adequate for reliability evaluation, they can fail for some complex networks. Under these conditions the quadrilateral-star transformation introduced in this paper can be used with success. The quadrilateral-star transformation is not exact; however, it yields results having adequate accuracy.
  • Keywords
    Bibliographies; Complex networks; Differential equations; Educational institutions; Mathematical model; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Complex system reliability evaluation; Quadrilateral-star transformation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1982.5221224
  • Filename
    5221224