Some Computer Algorithms to Implement a Reliability Shorthand.

Abstract

Under the assumption of constant failure rates it is possible to build a reliability shorthand which gives a simple, unified approach to reliability computations for systems in the presence of complications like support by shared spares or changes in the failures rates of surviving components when other components fail. The computational implementation of the shorthand depends upon the convolution of strings of exponentially distributed random variables. After reducing the system scenario to its shorthand format, one can use the programs that are given in the appendix to obtain numerical values for the reliability of the system. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123781

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People

  • Sadan Gursel

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • California
  • Coefficients
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Convolution
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Notation
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Survival

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