Purpose: Degradation measurement of some products requires destructive inspection; that is, the degradation of each unit can be observed only once. For example, observation on the mechanical strength of interconnection bonds or on the dielectric strength of insulators requires destruction of...

Abstract In this paper the reliability analysis of two new models generalizing the m -consecutive- k -out-of- n : F system is carried out using GERT: Model I: m -consecutive- k -out-of- n : F system with ( k -1)-step Markov dependence, and Model II: m -consecutive- k -out-of- n : F system with...

Abstract This paper proposes an efficient heuristic approach to solving the constrained redundancy optimization problem in multi-state systems (MSS) with multi-state components using minimal path vectors. A discrete multi-state model is considered, where the system state depends on the...

Abstract The problem of allocating optimum heterogeneous redundancy in multi-state series-parallel reliability structures is addressed in this paper. The objective is to obtain a configuration that minimizes the total cost of system design satisfying the given reliability constraint and the...