Redundancy schemes for engineering coherent systems via a signature-based approach

Abstract

This paper proposes a signature-based approach for solving redundancy allocation problems when component lifetimes are not only heterogeneous but also dependent. The two common schemes for allocations, that is active and standby redundancies, are considered. If the component lifetimes are independent, the proposed approach leads to simple manipulations. Various illustrative examples are also analysed. This method can be implemented for practical complex engineering systems.