Recent Advances in System Reliability: Signatures, Multi-state Systems and Statistical Inference

✍ Scribed by N. Balakrishnan, Jorge Navarro (auth.), Anatoly Lisnianski, Ilia Frenkel (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent Advances in System Reliability discusses developments in modern reliability theory such as signatures, multi-state systems and statistical inference. It describes the latest achievements in these fields, and covers the application of these achievements to reliability engineering practice.

The chapters cover a wide range of new theoretical subjects and have been written by leading experts in reliability theory and its applications. The topics include: concepts and different definitions of signatures (D-spectra), their properties and applications to reliability of coherent systems and network-type structures; Lz-transform of Markov stochastic process and its application to multi-state system reliability analysis; methods for cost-reliability and cost-availability analysis of multi-state systems; optimal replacement and protection strategy; and statistical inference.

Recent Advances in System Reliability presents many examples to illustrate the theoretical results. Real world multi-state systems, such as power generation and transmission, refrigeration, and production systems, are considered in the form of case studies, making the book a useful resource for researchers and postgraduate students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Signature Representation and Preservation Results for Engineered Systems and Applications to Statistical Inference....Pages 1-22
Using D-Spectra in Network Monte Carlo: Estimation of System Reliability and Component Importance....Pages 23-31
Signatures and Symmetry Properties of Coherent Systems....Pages 33-48
Multidimensional Spectra of Multistate Systems with Binary Components....Pages 49-61
Applications of Samaniego Signatures to Bounds on Variances of Coherent and Mixed System Lifetimes....Pages 63-77
L z -Transform for a Discrete-State Continuous-Time Markov Process and its Applications to Multi-State System Reliability....Pages 79-95
Reliability Decisions for Supermarket Refrigeration System by using Combined Stochastic Process and Universal Generating Function Method: Case Study....Pages 97-112
Importance Analysis of a Multi-State System Based on Multiple-Valued Logic Methods....Pages 113-134
Optimal Replacement and Protection Strategy for Parallel Systems....Pages 135-144
Heuristic Optimization Techniques for Determining Optimal Reserve Structure of Power Generating Systems....Pages 145-154
Determination of Vital Activities in Reliability Program for Multi-State System by Using House of Reliability....Pages 155-164
Multi-State Availability Modeling in Practice....Pages 165-180
Recent Results in the Analysis of Redundant Systems....Pages 181-193
Multiobjective Reliability Allocation in Multi-State Systems: Decision Making by Visualization and Analysis of Pareto Fronts and Sets....Pages 195-208
Optimal Incomplete Maintenance in Multi-State Systems....Pages 209-218
Nonparametric Estimation of Marginal Temporal Functionals in a Multi-State Model....Pages 219-235
Frailty or Transformation Models in Survival Analysis and Reliability....Pages 237-251
Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Reliability Modeling....Pages 253-267
On the Markov Three-State Progressive Model....Pages 269-281
Multi-State Semi-Markov Model of the Operation Reliability....Pages 283-294
Reliability of Continuous-State Systems in View of Heavy-Tailed Distributed Performance Features....Pages 295-306
On Optimal Control of Systems on Their Life Time....Pages 307-319

✦ Subjects

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management