Title :
Optimization of Systems Reliability
Author :
Fan, Liang Tseng ; Wang, Chiu Sen ; Tillman, Frank A. ; Hwang, Ching Lai
Author_Institution :
Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to obtain an optimum redundancy of the parallel system by a variational technique. The objective function is to maximize the system profit. A simple computational procedure is obtained for the optimum design of the multistage parallel systems by this method. Two numerical examples are given in detail.
Keywords :
Algorithm design and analysis; Analog computers; Chemical engineering; Chemical industry; Concurrent computing; Cost function; Linear programming; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Redundancy; Reliability theory;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1967.5217465
