Reliability assessment for multi-state systems under a dynamic load-sharing strategy

Author

Xiaohu Zhang ; Renqiang Xiu ; Chujie Chen ; Yu Liu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech., Electron., & Ind. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 July 2013

Firstpage

367

Lastpage

371

Abstract

In this paper, a multi-state system under dynamic load-sharing strategy is studied. The system is consisting of more than one type of components connected in parallel. The performance rate of the component can be increased or decreased, leading to a change of failure rate. Once any component in the system fails, the performance rate of components will be redistributed based on a dynamic load-sharing strategy. The Markov model is used in this paper to characterize the deterioration process of the system and evaluate the system reliability. The proposed model is demonstrated via a numerical example.

Keywords

Markov processes; failure analysis; reliability theory; Markov model; deterioration process; dynamic load-sharing strategy; failure rate; multistate systems; performance rate; reliability assessment; system reliability evaluation; Load modeling; Markov processes; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber networks; Power system dynamics; Reliability engineering; Markov model; dynamic load-sharing; multi-state system; reliability assessment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1014-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QR2MSE.2013.6625603

Filename

6625603