{"product_id":"multistate-systems-reliability-theory-with-applications-9780470697504","title":"Multistate Systems Reliability Theory with","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile most books on reliability deal with a description of component and system states as binary, i.e. , functioning or failed, many systems are composed of multistate components with different performance levels and several failure modes. This book addresses the need in a number of applications for a more refined description of these states.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This work is both text and research monograph, offering the fundamentals as well as new research as he says, \"on its way to being published in international journals.\" (Booknews, 1 April 2011)  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of abbreviations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Basic notation and two simple examples.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 An offshore electrical power generation system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Basic definitions from binary theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Early attempts to define multistate coherent systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Basics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Multistate monotone and coherent systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Binary type multistate systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Multistate minimal path and cut vectors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Stochastic performance of multistate monotone and coherent systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Stochastic performance of binary type multistate strongly coherent systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Bounds for system availabilities and unavailabilities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Performance processes of the components and the system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Basic bounds in a time interval.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Improved bounds in a time interval using modular decompositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Improved bounds at a fixed point of time using modular decompositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Strict and exactly correct bounds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Availabilities and unavailabilities of the components.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 The simple network system revisited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 The offshore electrical power generation system revisited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 An offshore gas pipeline network.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Description of the system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Bounds for system availabilities and unavailabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Bayesian assessment of system availabilities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Basic ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Moments for posterior component availabilities and unavailabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Bounds for moments for system availabilities and unavailabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 A simulation approach and an application to the simple network system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Measures of importance of system components.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Measures of component importance in nonrepairable systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 The Birnbaum and Barlow–Proschan measures of component importance in repairable systems and the latter’s dual extension.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 The Natvig measure of component importance in repairable systems and its dual extension.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Concluding remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Measures of component importance – a numerical study.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Component importance in two three-component systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Component importance in the bridge system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Application to an offshore oil and gas production system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Concluding remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Probabilistic modeling of monitoring and maintenance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction and basic marked point process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Partial monitoring of components and the corresponding likelihood formula.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Incorporation of information from the observed system history process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Cause control and transition rate control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Maintenance, repair and aggregation of operational periods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 The offshore electrical power generation system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 The data augmentation approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix A Remaining proofs of bounds given in Chapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.1 Proof of the inequalities 14, 7 and 8 of Theorem 3.12.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.2 Proof of inequality 14 of Theorem 3.13.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.3 Proof of inequality 10 of Theorem 3.17.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix B Remaining intensity matrices in Chapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReferences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525388640599,"sku":"9780470697504","price":77.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470697504.jpg?v=1731860328","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/multistate-systems-reliability-theory-with-applications-9780470697504","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}