scholarly journals Lifetime Reliability for Load-Sharing Redundant Systems With Arbitrary Failure Distributions

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Huang ◽  
Qiang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Load Sharing ◽  
Lifetime Reliability ◽  
Redundant Systems

A STUDY OF THE LOAD SHARING OF KNEE LIGAMENTS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Emery Silva ◽  
Brenno Tavares Duarte ◽  
Rodrigo Ribeiro Pinho Rodarte ◽  
Paulo Pedro Kenedi
Keyword(s):  
Load Sharing ◽  
Knee Ligaments

Optimal adaptive inspection and maintenance for redundant systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 1748006X2110201
Author(s):  
Chaochao Lin ◽  
Matteo Pozzi
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Systems ◽  
Discounted Cost ◽  
Markov Decision ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Partially Observable ◽  
Series Systems ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Redundant Systems

Optimal exploration of engineering systems can be guided by the principle of Value of Information (VoI), which accounts for the topological important of components, their reliability and the management costs. For series systems, in most cases higher inspection priority should be given to unreliable components. For redundant systems such as parallel systems, analysis of one-shot decision problems shows that higher inspection priority should be given to more reliable components. This paper investigates the optimal exploration of redundant systems in long-term decision making with sequential inspection and repairing. When the expected, cumulated, discounted cost is considered, it may become more efficient to give higher inspection priority to less reliable components, in order to preserve system redundancy. To investigate this problem, we develop a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework for sequential inspection and maintenance of redundant systems, where the VoI analysis is embedded in the optimal selection of exploratory actions. We investigate the use of alternative approximate POMDP solvers for parallel and more general systems, compare their computation complexities and performance, and show how the inspection priorities depend on the economic discount factor, the degradation rate, the inspection precision, and the repair cost.

Load-Sharing Reliability Models with Different Component Sensitivities to Other Components’ Working States

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-132
Author(s):  
Tomasz Rychlik ◽  
Fabio Spizzichino
Keyword(s):  
Order Statistics ◽  
Load Sharing ◽  
Single Component ◽  
Generalized Order Statistics ◽  
Hazard Rates ◽  
System Operation ◽  
Reliability Models ◽  
Mixtures Of Distributions ◽  
Failure Times ◽  
Generalized Order

AbstractWe study the distributions of component and system lifetimes under the time-homogeneous load-sharing model, where the multivariate conditional hazard rates of working components depend only on the set of failed components, and not on their failure moments or the time elapsed from the start of system operation. Then we analyze its time-heterogeneous extension, in which the distributions of consecutive failure times, single component lifetimes, and system lifetimes coincide with mixtures of distributions of generalized order statistics. Finally we focus on some specific forms of the time-nonhomogeneous load-sharing model.

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