• DocumentCode
    1349560
  • Title

    Direct Computation for Consecutive-k-out-of-n: F Systems

  • Author

    Bollinger, Richard C.

  • Author_Institution
    The Behrend College; The Pennsylvania State Univ.; Station Rd; Erie, PA 16563 USA.
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1982
  • Firstpage
    444
  • Lastpage
    446
  • Abstract
    A consecutive-k-out-of-n: F system has n i.i.d. components; the system fails if any k consecutive components fail. This paper gives a simple, direct combinatorial method for determining the system failure probability.
  • Keywords
    Bibliographies; Educational institutions; Protection; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Consecutive-k-out-of-n: F System;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1982.5221424
  • Filename
    5221424