A study of complete lattice in multi-state coherent system reliability analysis

Author

Yu Pang ; Xide Lai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Energy & Environ., Xihua Univ., Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 July 2013

Firstpage

233

Lastpage

236

Abstract

Systematic reliability analysis of a multi-state coherent system (MCS) is presented in this paper. Most available models for reliability purpose are addressed under the following assumptions: (1). the state sets of the system and its components are totally ordered. (2). the system and its components are considered to be in one of two states: perfect functioning or complete failure. However, both of the two model assumptions over-simplify the reality and limit the model application. In this paper, the multi-state coherent system is analyzed on the assumption that the state sets of the system and its components are complete lattices from probabilistic and possibilistic point of view.

Keywords

failure analysis; lattice theory; probability; reliability; MCS; complete failure; complete lattice; model application; multistate coherent system; perfect functioning; probabilistic; systematic reliability analysis; Degradation; Finite element analysis; Lattices; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Safety; coherent system; complete lattice; multi-state; possibilistic; probabilistic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1014-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QR2MSE.2013.6625572

Filename

6625572