 Importance analysis of multi-state systems based on tools of logical differential calculusMiroslav Kvassay, Elena Zaitseva and Vitaly Levashenko Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2017, vol. 165, issue C, 302-316 Abstract: Importance analysis deals with the investigation of influence of individual system components on system operation. This investigation can be qualitative or quantitative. The qualitative analysis focuses on finding scenarios in which a degradation/improvement of a specific component or a group of components results in a degradation/improvement of the whole system, while the quantitative one deals with numerical estimation of components importance. In this paper, we propose a new approach for importance analysis of Multi-State Systems (MSSs). The qualitative or quantitative importance analysis is based on the identification of critical states. The new approach can be used for calculation of all types of critical states. It is based on the application of direct partial logic derivatives. These derivatives are one of the methods of logical differential calculus. In this paper, the specifics of these derivatives for importance analysis of MSSs are considered in detail. Keywords: Reliability; Multi-state system; Structural importance; Birnbaum's importance; Criticality importance; Logical differential calculus (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:reensy:v:165:y:2017:i:c:p:302-316 DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2017.03.021 Access Statistics for this article Reliability Engineering and System Safety is currently edited by Carlos Guedes Soares More articles in Reliability Engineering and System Safety from Elsevier |
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