S. Anand et M. Chidambaram, OPTIMAL REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION OF A PWR COOLING LOOP USING A MULTISTAGE MONTE-CARLO METHOD, Microelectronics and reliability, 34(4), 1994, pp. 741-745
Two random search techniques are applied to a constrained nonlinear op
timization problem arising in reliability optimization of a complex pr
essurized water reactor (PWR) cooling loop system. The component redun
dancy allocation is obtained for minimal cost, subject to the system r
eliability constraint. The efficiencies of these two random search tec
hniques are compared.