Title :
Systems Reliability Subject to Multiple Nonlinear Constraints
Author :
Tillman, Frank A. ; Hwang, Ching-Lai ; Fan, Liang-Tseng ; Balbale, Shafi A.
Author_Institution :
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan.
Abstract :
A simple computational procedure has been developed for maximizing reliability of multistage parallel systems subject to multiple nonlinear constraints. It appears that the procedure can be applied to a variety of optimization problems with separable objective and multiple constraint functions.
Keywords :
Concurrent computing; Constraint optimization; NASA; Nonlinear equations; Reliability;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1968.5216929