Common supply failures in linear multi-state sliding window systems

• Published in: Reliability engineering & system safety Vol. 82; no. 1; pp. 55 - 62
• Main Author: Levitin, Gregory
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2003
• Subjects: Common cause failure; Genetic algorithm; Multi-state element; Optimal distribution; Reliability importance; Sliding window system; Universal moment generating function; Sliding window system; Common cause failure; Multi-state element; Genetic algorithm; CSF, common supply failure; CSG, common supply group; Optimal distribution; Reliability importance; SWS, linear multi-state sliding window system; Universal moment generating function; u-function, universal moment generating function; ME, multi-state element

This paper considers a linear multi-state sliding window system (SWS) that consists of n linearly ordered multi-state elements. Each element can have different states: from complete failure to perfect functioning. A performance rate is associated with each state. The system fails if the sum of the p...