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Topology-based (structured) methods for  \n– Series Systems  \n– Parallel Systems  \n• Reliability analysis for arbitrary networks  \n2  \nComputing System Reliability  \n• Depends on System Topology  \n|  | \u003Cbr>Monitor |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| |  |  |\n| Processor |  |  |\n| |  |  |\n| keyboard |  |  |\n\nMonitor  \n|  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Processor |  |  | Processor |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n\nkeyboard  \n• Assume each component fails randomly  \n– How do we compute system reliability?  \n3  \nCombinatorial Approach  \n(series topology)  \nIf a system consisting of n components, and every component is either working or failed, then we can simply enumerate all the possible combinations and calculate the probability for each combination.  \n\n| \u003Cbr>a | \u003Cbr>b | \u003Cbr>c | \u003Cbr>System | \u003Cbr>Prob. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| w | w | w |  | p3 |\n| w | w | f |  | p2 (1-p) |\n| w | f | w |  | p2 (1-p) |\n| f | w | w |  | p2 (1-p) |\n| w | f | f |  | p (1-p)2 |\n| f | f | w |  | p (1-p)2 |\n| f | w | f |  | p (1-p)2 |\n| f | f | f |  | (1-p)3 |\n\nCombinatorial Method  \n• Use probabilistic techniques to enumerate the different ways in which a system can remain operational  \n• The reliability of a system is derived in terms of thereliabilities of the individual components of the system (thus the term combinatorial)  \nComplexity Concerns  \n• How many possible combinations of the status of these n components?  \n• What can be done to manage the complexity?  \n– During model construction:  \n• Need a more intelligent way to describe the system’s failure behavior  \n• Series and parallel R BD (Reliability Block Diagram) approach  \n– During model solution:  \n• Need more efficient approach than counting individual probabilities  \n“Structured” Combinatorial Approach  \n• Reliability block diagrams  \n– Integrate certain probability events into a module, which contains the info:  \n• A probability of failure  \n• A failure rate  \n• A distribution of time to failure  \n• Steady-state and instantaneous unavailability  \n– Organize the modules in a “structured” way, according to the effects of each module’s failure  \n• Statistical independence Assumption  \n– Failures independence  \n– Repairs independence  \n“Structured” Combinatorial models  \n• Reliability block diagrams, Fault trees and Reliability graphs  \n– Integrate certain probability events into a module  \n– Organize the modules in a “structured” way, according to the effects of each module’s failure  \n– Commonly used in reliability, availability, or safety assessment  \n– These model types are similar in that they capture conditions that make a system fail in terms of the structural relationships between the system components.  \nRBD Features  \n􀁺 Easy to use  \n􀁺 Assuming statistical independence  \n– Failures independence  \n– Repairs independence  \n􀁺 Each component can have attached to it  \n– A probability of failure  \n– A failure rate  \n– A distribution of time to failure  \n– Steady-state and instantaneous unavailability  \nRBD Features  \n• Easy specification,  \n• Fast computation  \n– Relatively good algorithms are available for solving such models so that 100 component systems can be handled computationally  \n• consider the case where you need to handle 2100 probability events","cbCaion0L6ACf1Yl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaion0L6ACf1Yl","pdf",956030,37,"English","# Topics\n## Combinatorial Models for reliability\n## Topology-based (structured) methods\n## Series Systems\n## Parallel Systems\n## Reliability analysis for arbitrary networks\n# Computing System Reliability\n## Depends on system topology\n## Random component failures\n# Combinatorial Approach\n## Series topology enumeration\n## Complexity concerns\n# Structured Combinatorial Approach\n## Reliability block diagrams\n## Statistical independence assumptions\n# RBD Features\n## Module specification\n## Easy 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