A fast approximation method for reliability analysis of cold-standby systems

作者：Wang, Chaonan; Xing, Liudong^*; Amari, Suprasad V.

来源：Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2012, 106: 119-126.

DOI：10.1016/j.ress.2012.06.007

• Approximation method
• Cold-standby system
• Reliability analysis

Analyzing reliability of large cold-standby systems has been a complicated and time-consuming task, especially for systems with components having non-exponential time-to-failure distributions. In this paper, an approximation model, which is based on the central limit theorem, is presented for the reliability analysis of binary cold-standby systems. The proposed model can estimate the reliability of large cold-standby systems with binary-state components having arbitrary time-to-failure distributions in an efficient and easy way. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method are illustrated using several different types of distributions for both 1-out-of-n and k-out-of-n cold-standby systems.

• 出版日期2012-10
• 单位电子科技大学