USING DISCRETE SIMULATION MODELING TO STUDY LARGE-SCALE SYSTEM RELIABILITY AVAILABILITY/

Authors
CHISMAN JA
Citation
Ja. Chisman, USING DISCRETE SIMULATION MODELING TO STUDY LARGE-SCALE SYSTEM RELIABILITY AVAILABILITY/, Computers & operations research, 25(3), 1998, pp. 169-174
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Operatione Research & Management Science","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications","Operatione Research & Management Science","Computer Science Interdisciplinary Applications","Engineering, Industrial
Journal title
Computers & operations research → ACNP
ISSN journal
03050548
Volume
25
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
169 - 174
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-0548(1998)25:3<169:UDSMTS>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Discrete simulation modeling is shown to be of value in determining th e time-between-failure (TBF) and time-to-repair (TTR) distributions at various points in series/parallel and non-series/parallel (cross-link ed) systems. Most real world systems, such as power, telephone, gas, w ater, and electro/mechanical systems, are extremely large and have cro ss-linked components that are not ''well-behaved'' statistically, whic h make them impossible to analyze accurately and efficiently using mat hematical reliability/availability analysis. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.