A study on multi-level redundancy allocation in coherent systems formed by modules

The present work studies the effect of redundancies on the reliability of coherent systems formed by modules. Different redundancies at components’ level versus redundancies at modules’ level are investigated, including active and standby redundancies. For that, a new model is presented. This model...

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Autores: Torrado Robles, Nuria, Arriaza, Antonio, Navarro, Jorge
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/699899
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/699899
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2021.107694
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Copulas
Distribution-free comparisons
Hierarchical system structure
Optimal component allocation
Reliability
Stochastic comparisons
System/modular/component redundancy
Economía
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Sumario:The present work studies the effect of redundancies on the reliability of coherent systems formed by modules. Different redundancies at components’ level versus redundancies at modules’ level are investigated, including active and standby redundancies. For that, a new model is presented. This model takes into account the dependence among the components, as well as, the dependence among the modules of the system. In both cases, the dependence structure is modeled by copula functions. Several results are provided to compare systems consisting of heterogeneous components. The comparisons are distribution-free with respect to the components. In particular, we consider the cases when the components in the modules are independent and connected (or not) in series, and when the components are dependent within the modules. In both cases, it is assumed that the modules can be dependent. Furthermore, the case in which the components in each module are identically distributed (dependent or independent) is also considered. We illustrate the theoretical results with several examples