Reliability Evaluation of Multi-State Systems With Common Bus Performance Sharing Considering Performance Excess

Abstract

In a multi-state system with common bus performance sharing, the residual performance of any sub-unit can be shared to other sub-units with insufficient performance by the common bus with stochastic sharing capacity. This study extends the reliability evaluation model by considering both the minimum and maximum requirements of elements, which should not only meet the random minimum requirements of each single element, but also require that there should be no excess performance. The reliability of the multi-state system (MSS) is estimated by using the Universal Generating Function (UGF) technique. Illustrative example is presented to illustrate the procedures. In addition, the genetic operator is used to obtain the optimal location of the components with maximum reliability.

Keywords

• Performance excess
• multi-state system
• common bus
• performance sharing
• reliability