Applied Mathematics
Volume 4, Issue 1 (January 2013)
ISSN Print: 2152-7385 ISSN Online: 2152-7393
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Optimal Redundancy Allocation in Hierarchical Series-Parallel Systems Using Mixed Integer Programming ()
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Reliability optimization plays an important role in design, operation and management of the industrial systems. System reliability can be easily enhanced by improving the reliability of unreliable components and/or by using redundant configuration with subsystems/components in parallel. Redundancy Allocation Problem (RAP) was studied in this research. A mixed integer programming model was proposed to solve the problem, which considers simultaneously two objectives under several resource constraints. The model is only for the hierarchical series-parallel systems in which the elements of any subset of subsystems or components are connected in series or parallel and constitute a larger subsystem or total system. At the end of the study, the performance of the proposed approach was evaluated by a numerical example.
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