Reliability evaluation of uncertain k-out-of-n systems with multiple states

Yuhong Sheng and Hua Ke

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2020, vol. 195, issue C

Abstract: Uncertain multi-state k-out-of-n systems, as generalizations of uncertain binary k-out-of-n systems, are investigated in this paper, of which the components could be in multiple states. Some formulas are derived to evaluate the reliability index of an uncertain multi-state k-out-of-n system. Besides, the concept of importance measure is introduced to describe the relative importance of the components in an uncertain multi-state k-out-of-n system, and a binary search algorithm is designed to compute the importance measures of the components.

Keywords: k-Out-of-n system; Uncertain variable; Reliability analysis; Importance measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2019.106696

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