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Active Redundancy Allocation in Coherent Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Philip J. Boland ,
Emad El Neweihi  and
Frank Proschan
Philip J. Boland
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics University College, Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Emad El Neweihi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60680
Frank Proschan
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics The Florida State University Tallahassee, florida 32306-3033
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Abstract

We introduce in this paper a new measure of component importance, called redundancy importance, in coherent systems. It is a measure of importance for the situation in which an active redundancy is to be made in a coherent system. This measure of component importance is compared with both the (Birnbaum) reliability importance and the structural importance of a component in a coherent system. Various models of component redundancy are studied, with particular reference to k/out / of / n systems, parallel-series systems, and series-parallel systems.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 343 - 353
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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