Reliability Measure of a Relay Parallel System under Dependence Conditions

Vanderlei da Costa Bueno

Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, S?o Paulo University, S?o Paulo, Brasil.

DOI: 10.4236/ajor.2013.31A009                

Abstract

In a relay system of dependent components, the failure to close reliability measure is given as a Girsanov transform of the failure to open reliability measure.

Keywords

Martingale Methods in Reliability Theory; Compensator Process; Parallel Operation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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