Title :
A Method of Predicting Availability Characteristics of Series-Parallel Systems
Author_Institution :
University of Maryland; Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering; College Park, Maryland 20742 USA.
Abstract :
A simple method for predicting failure characteristics of a series-parallel system from the failure characteristics of the components that compose the system is presented. It is tutorial, and explained in detail.
Keywords :
Availability; Condition monitoring; Educational institutions; Equations; Logic; Safety; Steady-state; Failure characteristic; Series-parallel system; Unavailability;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1984.5221836
