Optimal Consecutive-2-out-of-n:F Component Sequencing
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability
- Vol. R-33 (5) , 414-418
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.1984.5221885
Abstract
A consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system is an ordered linear arrangement of n components that fails if and only if at least k consecutive components fail. When the components are not necessarily equally likely to fail, the problem of interest is to assign components to positions in the system in a way that minimizes the probability of system failure. This paper shows that when k = 2 and component failures are s-independent, the optimal configuration can be determined without knowledge of the exact particular component-failure probabilities, but with knowledge of the component ranks (in terms of failure probability).Keywords
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- On the Consecutive-k-of-n:F SystemIEEE Transactions on Reliability, 1982