TY - JOUR
T1 - Reliability for sparsely connected consecutive-k systems
AU - Zhao, Xian
AU - Cui, Lirong
AU - Kuo, Way
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - We introduce the system of consecutive failures with sparse d which is a natural extension of consecutive-k systems. Then a series of generalizations of consecutive- k systems are discussed, such as consecutive-k-out-n:F systems with sparse d, M consecutive-k-out-of-n:F systems with sparse d, and (n,f,k):F systems with sparse d. We present the formulation for the system reliability of these generalized consecutive-k systems with various component settings in terms of the finite Markov Chain imbedding idea, along with two numerical examples.
AB - We introduce the system of consecutive failures with sparse d which is a natural extension of consecutive-k systems. Then a series of generalizations of consecutive- k systems are discussed, such as consecutive-k-out-n:F systems with sparse d, M consecutive-k-out-of-n:F systems with sparse d, and (n,f,k):F systems with sparse d. We present the formulation for the system reliability of these generalized consecutive-k systems with various component settings in terms of the finite Markov Chain imbedding idea, along with two numerical examples.
KW - Consecutive-k system with sparse d
KW - Finite Markov chain imbedding approach
KW - System reliability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34548615729&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TR.2007.903202
DO - 10.1109/TR.2007.903202
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34548615729
SN - 0018-9529
VL - 56
SP - 516
EP - 524
JO - IEEE Transactions on Reliability
JF - IEEE Transactions on Reliability
IS - 3
ER -