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ACTIVE REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION FOR COHERENT SYSTEMS WITH INDEPENDENT AND HETEROGENEOUS COMPONENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2018

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Xiaohu Li
Rui Fang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, China E-mail: xmufr1987@hotmail.com
Xiaohu Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
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Abstract

This paper studies the allocation of active redundancies to coherent systems on the context that the base and redundancy components have mutual independent lifetimes. For systems with two symmetric components and systems with one component's minimal cut sets (minimal path sets) covering those of another, we derive sufficient conditions to compare the resultant system lifetimes. Some numerical examples are also presented to illustrate the theoretical results.

Keywords

majorizationminimal cut set decompositionstochastic ordersymmetric components
Type
Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 72 - 91
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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