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A reliability comparison of basic systems using hazard rate functions
✍ Scribed by Boland, Philip J.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 8755-0024
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✦ Synopsis
The hazard rate function is a key tool in reliability theory and represents the instantaneous rate of failure of an item at time t given survival at time t. The hazard rate function of a system of components is closely related to the hazard rate of the components, and we see how this varies as the components vary in k-out-of-n systems. The impact that redundancy has on the hazard rate function of a system is also investigated, and a design problem involving majority logic in the assembly of systems is also considered. The emphasis in the paper is on the use of graphical illustrations of hazard rate functions. 1998
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