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A Case Study on Network Reliability Analysis for Systems with Non-Independent Paths
The problem addressed here is the complexity in reliability modeling for network systems with nonindependent paths...
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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Functional and Dysfunctional Analysis of a Mechatronic System
In this paper, we propose to employ SADT, FMEA, SEEA and Petri networks methods to study a mechatronic system...
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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On Determining Sample Size and Testing Duration of Repairable System Test
This paper develops a theoretical method, based on pivotal quantities and a confidence bound requirement for the reliability metrics of interest, to help test planners to determine the minimal sample sizes and test duration..
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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A Unified Model for Evaluating the Safety Integrity Level of Safety Instrumented Systems
This paper proposes a new figure of merit (FOM) for evaluating safety integrity levels (SIL) for safety instrumented systems (SIS)...
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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Analysis of the Performance of Safety-Critical Systems with Diagnosis and Periodic Inspection
This paper presents a method for analysis of performance indexes of safety-critical systems...
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Probabilistic analysis of safety-critical adaptive systems with temporal dependences
The results of this paper determine configuration probabilities, that are necessary to quantify the fulfillment of functional and safety requirements by adaptive systems...
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Safety Management for Electromechanical Systems of Railway Vehicles
This paper deals with safety management for electromechanical systems intended for railway applications...
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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A Simple Classification Approach to Build a Bathtub
This paper begins with a brief examination of a common mixed-Weibull form. It is observed that the likelihood function of this form implicitly handles the data in aggregate – ironically not a mixture..
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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System Reliability Evaluation Using Normalized Test Data
This paper describes the application of normalization techniques to reliability test data on the Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program...
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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Reliability Improvement of Deformation Tools with the Taguchi Robust Design
Taguchi’s robust design experiments provides an efficient way to achieve these goals and the concepts of the Taguchi’s method in the context of the reliability improvement are emphasized at the beginning of the paper..
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- Publish date: 2008-02
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