Abstract: A primary concern in practical engineering design is ensuring high system reliability throughout a product's lifecycle, which is subject to time-variant operating conditions and component ...

Abstract: Although researchers desire to evaluate system reliability accurately and efficiently over the years, little progress has been made on system reliability analysis. Up to now, bound methods for ...

Abstract: Most engineered systems are designed with a passive and fixed design capacity and, therefore, may become unreliable in the presence of adverse events. Currently, most engineered systems are ...

Abstract: This paper presents a Generalized Complementary Intersection Method (GCIM) that can predict system reliability for series, parallel, and mixed systems. The GCIM is an extension of the original ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new paradigm of system reliability prediction that enables the use of evolving, insufficient, and subjective data sets. The data sets can be acquired from expert knowledge, ...