Citation

Miller AJ, Deans ND, Taleb B. Reliab. Eng. 1986; 14(4): 257-273.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(86)90061-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

As the complexity of engineering systems increases and the demands on designers and operators to carry out reliability studies intensify, much attention is being directed towards the development of reliability assessment tools. Reliability simulation techniques are attractive when components with non-exponential distributions are used and there are resource policies. This paper outlines the design philosophy of a reliability simulator (SPRINT-II) which exploits the parallelism and opportunity for concurrency that occurs in the assessment of the reliability of a multi-component system. The relative merits of an event-to-event simulator vis-a-vis an epoch-to-epoch simulator are discussed and an architecture is proposed.