Comprehensive Research on the Reliability and Performance of Systems and Components Assuming More than Two States.

Abstract

The vast majority of reliability analyses assume that components and system are in either of two states; functioning or failed. This represents an oversimplification of the many real life situations in which both components and systems assume a variety of states ranging from perfect functioning to complete failure. In the present work a basic theory was developed for the study of systems of components in which any of a finite number of states may occur, representing at one extreme perfect functioning and at the other extreme complete failure. The standard notion of Coherent Systems was extended to the new notion of a multistate coherent system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA060415

Entities

People

  • Emad El-neweihi

Organizations

  • University of Kentucky

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

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  • Air Force
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Classification
  • Complex Systems
  • Decomposition
  • Identities
  • Kentucky
  • Mathematics
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Order Statistics
  • Probability
  • Radar
  • Reliability
  • Scientific Research
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes

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