Signatures of series and parallel systems consisting of non disjoint modules |
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Authors: | C. Franko F. Yalcin |
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Affiliation: | 1. Izmir American Collegiate Inonu Caddesi, Goztepe, Izmir, Turkey;2. Department of Engineering Sciences, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Cigli, Izmir, Turkey |
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Abstract: | System signature is a useful tool to analyze coherent systems. In reliability theory, a large number of systems is actually the composition of disjoint subsystems (modules). However, in real life, there are situations in which the subsystems have common components. In this article, we consider the problem of obtaining signatures as well as minimal signatures of series and parallel systems that are composed of subsystems sharing a component. That is, these subsystems are no longer disjoint. Computational results are also presented to illustrate our findings. |
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Keywords: | Mean time to failure Non-disjoint modules Reliability Series and Parallel systems System signature. |
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