RBDs and Analytical System Reliability

An overall system reliability prediction can be made by looking at the reliabilities of the components that make up the whole system or product. In this chapter, we will examine the methods of performing such calculations. The reliability-wise configuration of components must be determined beforehand. For this reason, we will first look at different component/subsystem configurations, also known as structural properties (Leemis [17]). Unless explicitly stated, the components will be assumed to be statistically independent. = Sections =
 * 1)  Component Configurations
 * 2)  Series Systems
 * 3)  Simple Parallel Systems
 * 4)  Combination of Series and Parallel
 * 5)  k-out-of-n Parallel Configuration
 * 6)  Complex Systems
 * 7)  Difference Between Physical and Reliability-Wise Arrangement
 * 8)  Configurations with Load Sharing and Standby Redundancy
 * 9)  Configurations with Inherited Subdiagrams
 * 10)  Configurations with Multi Blocks
 * 11)  Configurations with Mirrored Blocks
 * 12)  Reliability Block Diagrams for Failure Modes and Other Applications
 * 13)  Symbolic Solutions in BlockSim