Advances in reliability analysis and its applications

✍ Scribed by Ram M., Pham H (ed.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Time Varying Communication Networks: Modelling, Reliability Evaluation and Optimization......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 12
2.1 Overview......Page 14
2.2 Evolving Graph Model......Page 17
2.3 Path Set and Cut Set Model for TVCNs......Page 19
3 Difference: TVCN and Static Network......Page 21
4.2 Reliability Evaluation—Static Networks......Page 22
4.3 Reliability Evaluation—TVCNs......Page 23
4.4 Reliability Optimization......Page 24
5 TVCN Reliability Evaluation......Page 26
5.2 TS-MPS Enumeration Techniques......Page 27
5.3 TS-MCS Enumeration Techniques......Page 33
5.4 Reliability Related Metrics Evaluation......Page 34
6 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research......Page 36
References......Page 37
Methods for Prognosis and Optimization of Energy Plants Efficiency in Starting Step of Life Cycle......Page 41
1 Introduction......Page 43
2 Review of Previous Research......Page 44
3 Theoretical Reviews......Page 47
3.1 Life Cycle of Energy Power Plants......Page 48
3.2 Effectiveness of the Energy System as a Complex Technical System......Page 50
4.1 Time Characteristics Achieved in the Exploitation of the Energy System......Page 65
4.2 Energetic Indicators Achieved in the Exploitation of Energy Systems......Page 67
4.3 Technical and Economic Indicators Achieved in the Exploitation of the Energy System......Page 68
5 Main Consumption of Thermal Power Plants......Page 70
6 Methods for the Prognosis and Optimization of Energy Systems Efficiency......Page 72
6.1 Methods for Giving Prognosis Estimates of the Effectiveness of Energy Systems......Page 73
6.2 Mathematical Problem Optimization for the Efficiency of Energy Systems......Page 80
7 Racionalization of Energy Consumption and Prevention for Their Implementation......Page 92
8 Conclusions......Page 93
References......Page 100
Planning Methods for Production Systems Development in the Energy Sector and Energy Efficiency......Page 104
1 Introduction......Page 106
2 Review of Past Research......Page 108
3 Basic Planning Schemes in the Field of Energetics......Page 111
4 On Energy Safety, Diversification of Energy Sources and Quality of Energy......Page 117
4.1 Energy Policy......Page 120
4.2 Planning in Energetics......Page 125
4.3 Integrated Planning and Energy Policy......Page 127
5.1 Integrated Planning and Energy Policy......Page 130
5.2 Level Includes—Global, Regional, National, Local or Project Level......Page 137
5.3 General Considerations of Optimizing the Operation of the Electricity Energy System (EES)......Page 138
5.4 Energy Efficiency Management System......Page 140
5.5 Energy Efficiency Regulations in the EU and Republic of Srpska and BiH as a Whole......Page 141
5.6 Guidelines for Energy Efficiency in Production......Page 142
6 On Example of the Adopted Policy for the Strategy of Development of the Electric Power Sector......Page 144
7 Conclusions......Page 153
References......Page 155
1 The Method of Integrated Safety Assessment at Hazardous Production Facilities......Page 158
1.1 Introduction......Page 159
1.2 Goal Setting......Page 161
1.3 Some Marks About Nonrandomness of Decision Rules......Page 163
1.4 Method of Solution......Page 164
1.5 Case Study......Page 165
1.6 Conclusion......Page 170
2 Some Methodological Aspects of Multicriteria Method of Decision-Making on the Sustainability and Security of Industrial Objects Exploitation......Page 171
2.1 The Problem of Constructing an Integral Indicator Industrial Safety......Page 172
2.2 The Main Provisions of the Group Analysis of Object Dynamics......Page 174
2.3 Diffusion Approximation of Markov Processes. Fokker-Planck Equation......Page 177
2.4 Estimation of Average Time of Passing «Way» for the Fulfilment of Obligations......Page 180
2.5 Diffusion Model in Economic Behavior. Approaches to Developing a Methodology for Analyzing the Risk of Default of the Operating Organization......Page 184
2.6 Example of Building a Dynamic Corridor Model......Page 189
2.7 Target Construction Based on the Support Vector Machine......Page 195
2.8 Case Study......Page 199
2.9 Conclusion......Page 205
References......Page 206
Multi-level Hierarchical Reliability Model of Technical Systems: Theory and Application......Page 209
1 Introduction......Page 210
2.1 Structure of MLHRM......Page 213
2.2 Goals, Methods and Models......Page 216
3 Application Cases......Page 219
3.1 Electrical Helicopter......Page 220
3.2 Icebreaker LNG Tanker with Electric Propulsion......Page 221
3.3 Component Level and Subunit Level......Page 223
3.4 Unit Level......Page 224
3.5 Subsystem Level......Page 231
3.6 System Level......Page 237
References......Page 240
Graph Theory Based Reliability Assessment Software Program for Complex Systems......Page 243
2.1 What Is Reliability?......Page 244
2.2 Statistical Distributions......Page 246
3 Graph Theory......Page 247
4 Reliability Assessment Software Program......Page 249
5.1 Aircraft System......Page 252
5.2 Reliability Aircraft Analysis......Page 253
5.3 Simulation Results and Discussion......Page 254
6 Conclusions......Page 256
References......Page 257
Reliability and Vacation: The Critical Issue......Page 258
1 Introduction......Page 259
2 Machine Repair Problem (MRP)......Page 260
3 MRP with N-Policy......Page 264
4 MRP with Bernoulli Vacation Policy (BV)......Page 268
5 MRP with Multiple Vacation Policy (MV)......Page 272
6 MRP with Single Vacation Policy (SV)......Page 276
7 MRP with Multiple Working Vacation Policy (MWV)......Page 280
8 MRP with Single Working Vacation Policy (SWV)......Page 284
9 MRP with Vacation Interruption Policy (VI)......Page 288
10 Discussion......Page 294
References......Page 296
1 Introduction......Page 300
2 Notations......Page 303
3 Methodology......Page 304
4 Numerical Analysis......Page 307
References......Page 311
1 Introduction......Page 313
2.1 Assumptions and Preliminaries......Page 314
2.2 Approach......Page 317
3 Exploratory Results......Page 321
4 Conclusions and Future Work......Page 322
References......Page 323
A General (Universal) Form of Multivariate Survival Functions in Theoretical and Modeling Aspect of Multicomponent System Reliability Analysis......Page 324
1 Introduction......Page 325
2 Marginal Factors Representation......Page 326
3 Universality of Joiner Representation of Bivariariate Survival Functions......Page 334
4 Baseline Factors Representation......Page 336
5 k-Variate Survival Functions Universal Representation......Page 340
6 Conclusions......Page 345
References......Page 347
1 Introduction......Page 348
2 Literature Review......Page 349
3 Problem Statement......Page 350
4.2 Solution Procedure......Page 351
4.3 Illustration......Page 354
5 Experimental Study and Discussion......Page 360
6 Conclusions and Perspectives......Page 362
References......Page 364
1 Introduction......Page 365
2 Research Background......Page 366
4.1 Fuzzy Set Theory Basics......Page 367
4.2 Fuzzy Lambda-Tau Approach......Page 369
5.1 Reliability Analysis......Page 371
5.2 Result Discussion......Page 372
References......Page 375
1 Introduction......Page 377
2 Suppositions......Page 379
4 States Narrative......Page 380
5 State Transition Diagram......Page 381
6 Analysis and Methodology......Page 382
7.1 Availability......Page 385
7.2 Reliability Analysis......Page 386
7.4 Sensitivity Analysis......Page 387
8 Results Discussion......Page 389
References......Page 390