Title :
Reliability optimization of coherent systems
Author :
Prasad, V. Rajendra ; Kuo, Way
Author_Institution :
KBSI, College Station, TX, USA
fDate :
9/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents a search method based on lexicographic order, and an upper bound on the objective function, for solving redundancy allocation problems in coherent systems. Such problems generally belong to the class of nonlinear integer programming problems with separable constraints and nondecreasing functions. For illustration, 3 types of problems are solved using our method. Numerical investigation shows the performance of the method for large problems
Keywords :
integer programming; nonlinear programming; redundancy; reliability; search problems; coherent systems; exact solution method; lexicographic order; nondecreasing functions; nonlinear integer programming problems; objective function upper bound; redundancy allocation; reliability optimization; search method; separable constraints; Algorithm design and analysis; Constraint optimization; Costs; Dynamic programming; Linear programming; Power system reliability; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Search methods; Upper bound;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
