A method for assessment of reliability of the network is developed, which uses the features of the fault tree analysis. The method is developed in a way that the increase of the network under consideration does not require significant increase of the model. The method is applied to small examples of network consisting of a small number of nodes and a small number of their connections. The resul...

A weighted version of the –out–of– system is considered. In the disjoint products version of reliability analysis of weighted– –out–of– systems, it is necessary to determine the order in which the weight of components is to be considered. The –out–of– :G(F) system consists of components; each component has its own probability and positive integer weight such that the system is operational (fail...

In this article, we will address the complexity of non-identical components in multi-component systems. Most technical systems can be described as such since either component types or functions within system vary amongst components. While most reliability related work resorts to assumption homogeneous components, aim often more realistic heterogeneous extending model Extended Sequential Order S...

Human factors always affect maintenance performance, and in some cases, it’s critical to systems availability and reliability. Despite such importance, in so many cases, there’s no human reliability method applied to analyze maintenance tasks in order to understand better human factors influence in maintenance performance. There are several human analysis methodologies and regarding human facto...

performing a probabilistic study rather than a determinist one is a relatively easy way to quantify the uncertainty in an engineering design. due to the complexity and poor accuracy of the statistical moment methods, the monte carlo simulation (mcs) method is wildly used in an engineering design. in this work, an mcs-based reliability analysis was carried out for the stability of the chain pill...

In this paper, a more efficient approach for component-level structural reliability analysis using the First Order Reliability Method (FORM) is presented. In this approach, the continuum design sensitivity analysis (DSA) and a two-point approximation (TPA) method are employed to support the most probable point (MPP) search in the random variable space for structural reliability analysis. This a...

The reliability evaluation of interconnection networks is an important issue in their quality management. Some important reliability measures are network reliability or g-terminal reliability, terminal reliability or 2-terminal reliability and k-terminal reliability. This paper concentrates on evaluating these three different reliability measures of interconnection networks. In this context a n...