Reliability of Consecutive-k-out-of-n:F System

1 April 1981

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Vol. R-30 (1), 87-89
https://doi.org/10.1109/tr.1981.5220981

Abstract

A reliability diagram with n components in sequence is called consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system if the system fails whenever k consecutive components are failed. This paper presents a recursive formula to compute the exact system reliability, and gives sharp upper and lower bounds for it.

Keywords

PETROLEUM
FAILURE ANALYSIS
RANDOM VARIABLES
RELIABILITY THEORY
RELAYS
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
TELECOMMUNICATION COMPUTING
SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS
PIPELINES
SECTIONS

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

General Solution to the Occupancy Problem with Variably Sized Runs of Adjacent Cells Occupied by Single Balls
Mathematics Magazine, 1975

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