| dc.description.abstract | Calculating system-reliability
via the knowledge of structure function is not new.
Such attempts have been made in the classical 1975 book by
Barlow & Proschan. But they had to compromise with the
increasing complexity of a system. This paper overcomes this
problem through a new representation of the structure function,
and demonstrates that the well-known systems considered in
the state-of-art follow this new representation. With this new
representation, the important reliability calculations, such as
Birnbaum reliability-importance, become simple. The Chaudhuri,
et al. (J. Applied Probability, 1991) bounds which exploit the
knowledge of structure function were implemented by our simple
and easy-to-use algorithm for some s-coherent structures,viz,s-series,s-parallel,
2-out-of-3:G, bridge structure, and a fire-detector
system. | |
