Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering

3 Reliability Modelling of Multi-Phased Linear Consecutively Connected Systems

Kaiye Gao, Xiangbin Yan, Hui Xiao, and Rui Peng

DOI: 10.4324/9780429331527-3

CONTENTS

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 The Model
  • 3.2.1 System Structure
  • 3.2.2 Signal Transmission of CE
  • 3.2.3 Signal Transmission of Node
  • 3.2.4 Reliability of LMCCSs
• 3.3 Illustrative Example
• 3.4 Summary
• References

3.1 Introduction

A linear multi-state consecutively connected system (LMCCS) is composed of a number of linear ordered positions (nodes) (Yu et al., 2014, 2016, Levitin et al., 2014b, Levitin, 2003a, Xiao et al., 2016a), where the first node is the source node and the last node is the sink node. Each non-sink node is deployed with the connection element (CE) to connect the host ...