Multistate Reliability Models: A Survey,

Abstract

The vast majority of reliability analyses assume that components and system are in either of two states: functioning or failed. In many real life situations one is capable of distinguishing between various 'levels of performance' for both the system and its components. For such cases, the existing dichotomous model is a gross oversimplification of the real situation and models representing multistate systems and components are more adequate. In the present paper, a survey is made of the recent papers which treat the more sophisticated and more realistic situations in which components and systems may assume many states ranging from perfect functioning to complete failure. The present survey updates and complements a previous survey given by El-Neweihi and Proschan. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA089778

Entities

People

  • Emad El-neweihi

Organizations

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Distribution Functions
  • Exclusion Principle
  • Identities
  • Mathematics
  • Numbers
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Real Numbers
  • Reliability
  • Stochastic Processes

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.
  • Theoretical Analysis.