Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference (한국신뢰성학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2004.07a
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- Pages.201-206
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- 2004
Optimal System Structure of Linear Consecutive-k-out-of-n:F System
- Yun, Won-Young (Dept. of Industrial Engineering Pusan National University) ;
- Kim, Gue-Rae (Dept. of Industrial Engineering Pusan National University) ;
- Hisashi Yamamoto (Dept. of Production Information System Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology)
- Published : 2004.07.01
Abstract
The linear consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system consists of n components ordered linearly and fails if and only if at least k consecutive components fail. We assume that the failure times of components are independent and identical exponentially distributed. This paper develops a model to calculate the expected cost per unit time of a linear consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system. The optimization problem to find the system structure parameter k to minimize the expected cost per unit time is considered.
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