The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization

• Main Author: Levitin, Gregory (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2005.
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer-aided engineering.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Engineering, general.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Computational Intelligence.; Complexity.

Many real-world systems in engineering are composed of multi-state components that have different performance levels and several failure modes. These have effects on the entire system’s performance. Most books on reliability theory are devoted to traditional binary models that only allow a system ei...