TY - JOUR PY - 1985// TI - Reliability/Availability evaluations of coherent systems based on minimal cut sets JO - Reliability engineering A1 - Aven, Terje SP - 93 EP - 104 VL - 13 IS - 2 N2 - This paper deals with the problem of compting the (un)reliability/(un)availability of a coherent system, for example a coherent fault tree, based on the minimal cut sets. Computing methods for some component importance measures are also discussed. A new computer program, ERAC, is reported. This program can calculate system (un)reliability/(un)availability and some component importance measures under the assumption of independent components. The program uses a recent developed algorithm for exact calculations by Aven.1 In addition, the Min-Max bounds on the system (un)reliability/(un)availability for associated components can be computed.

LA - SN - 0143-8174 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0143-8174(85)90064-2 ID - ref1 ER -