RELIABILITY OF A CASCADE SYSTEM WITH EXPONENTIAL STRENGTH AND GAMMA STRESS

In this paper an expression for the reliability of an n-cascade system is allowed when the strengths of the components follows an exponentia l distribution and the imminent stress is impinged on the first compon ent with a gamma distribution. Also the stress on the successive compo nents are acted by deterministic but unequal factors. The results are observed for the cases when the parameter p takes higher values, one c an infer that the systems with larger parameters value and lesser atte nuation factors are more reliable. Copyright (C) Elsevier Science Ltd.