Citation

Dhillon BS, Rayapati SN. Reliab. Eng. 1986; 16(2): 163-177.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(86)90083-1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents a newly developed method to evaluate reliability of complex systems composed of independent three-state devices. The method is demonstrated with the aid of a hypothetical example of a complex system. In addition, the impact of unit (i.e. three-state device) open and short mode failure probabilities on bridge network reliability is shown.