• Code calibration procedures are compared for accuracy and computational efficiency. Reliability-based code calibrations deemed more accurate. Design-based computationally significantly faster. beneficial format optimization. Some of the early probabilistic minimized an error term defined as difference between optimal or target design resulting with trial partial factors format. In contrast to...

Discrete event simulation is generally recognized as a valuable aid to the strategic and tactical decision making that is required in the evaluation stage of the manufacturing systems design and redesign processes. It is common practice to represent workers within these simulation models as simple resources, often using deterministic performance values derived from time studies. This form of re...

due to the expected increase of defects in circuits based on deep submicron technologies, reliability has become an important design criterion. although different approaches have been developed to estimate reliability in digital circuits and some measuring concepts have been separately presented to reveal the quality of analog circuit reliability in the literature, there is a gap to estimate re...

Due to the inherent uncertainties or variabilities in loads, materials and manufacturing quality, variabilities are unavoidable in structural responses. To ensure the reliability of a structure, these uncertainties or variabilities must be considered during structural design. Through a simple cantilever box beam example, the concepts and practices of three design methodologies: deterministic de...

Several inverse reliability measures (e.g. Probabilistic Performance Measure (PPM) and Probabilistic Sufficiency Factor (PSF)) that are essentially equivalent have been introduced in recent years as measures of safety. The different names for essentially the same measure reflect the fact that different researchers focused on different advantages of inverse measures. These advantages include imp...

This paper addresses the mixed integer reliability redundancy allocation problems to determine simultaneous allocation of optimal reliability and redundancy level of components based on three objective goals. System engineering principles suggest that the best design is the design that maximizes the system operational effectiveness and at the same time minimizes the total cost of ownership (TCO...