System Signatures and their Applications in Engineering Reliability

• Main Author: Samaniego, Francisco J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: International Series In Operations Research & Management Science, 110
• Subjects: Engineering.; Operations research.; Decision making.; System theory.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Systems Theory, Control.

In building reliability into a system, engineers must address a number of practical needs that will enable them to quantify and compare reliability in engineered systems. (1) One is to be able to compare the reliability of one system to another system. (2) Another practical need is to compare altern...

Table of Contents:

• Background on Coherent Systems
• System Signatures
• Signature-Based Closure, Preservation and Characterization Theorems
• Further Signature-Based Analysis of System Lifetimes
• Applications of Signatures to Network Reliability
• Applications of Signatures in Reliability Economics
• Summary and Discussion.