Reliability of All Possible Series-Parallel Redundant Structures of M I.I.D. Units with Two Failure Modes

• Published in: IEEE transactions on reliability Vol. R-29; no. 4; pp. 320 - 323
• Main Authors: Nakagawa, Yuji, Hattori, Yoshio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.1980
• Subjects: Bridges; Educational institutions; Equations; Power system protection; Power system relaying; Probability; Protective relaying; Redundancy; Reliability calculation; Reliability theory; Series-parallel redundancy; Series-parallel structures; Two failure modes; Valves

The paper presents a method for generating systematically and exactly all possible series-parallel (s-p) structures for several i.i.d. units. The method is modified in order to calculate the failure probabilities and reliabilities of all the possible s-p redundant structures for the i.i.d. units wit...