Bounding the Reliability of Multistate Systems.

Abstract

This report develops a number of upper and lower bounds for the reliability of multistate systems, that is, systems for which each component may exist in one of a finite number of states. These bounds are based on notions of multistate minimal paths and minimal cuts. The bounds are far more easily computed than the exact system reliability. In order to further reduce the computations required and obtain sharper bounds, a modular-decomposition-based bound is developed for multistate systems. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1979
Accession Number
ADA075579

Entities

People

  • David A. Butler

Organizations

  • Stanford University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Complex Systems
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Decomposition
  • Equations
  • Hierarchies
  • Inequalities
  • Machines
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Power Plants
  • Operations Research
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability

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  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.