Pioneers of the reliability theories of the past 50 years

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dc.contributor.authorRueda, A
dc.contributor.authorPawlak, M
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-07T18:41:55Z
dc.date.available2007-09-07T18:41:55Z
dc.date.issued2004-12-31T18:41:55Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper is dedicated to all the researchers for their contributions in reliability theories in the past 50 years. The paper provides a summary on the pioneers of reliability theories, and how their works placed a great influence on our reliability analysis today. This is also a survey paper on reliability theories and methods. The information provided in this paper is mostly based on literatures found first hand to provide as much a neutral view as possible. However, some of the information is adopted from Refs. 1-4. Area of interest in the reliability analysis included representation of reliability parameters, renewal theory, coherent structure, diagram-based models, theoretical methods, and other miscellaneous techniques. Diagram based models included block diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis, and flowgraphs. Theoretical methods included queueing theory, asymptotic analysis, Boolean algebra, Bayesian method, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization techniques. Miscellaneous methods that cannot be classified in any of the categories are also provided. Looking back in the last century, a lot of the contributions to reliability research were done in the last 50 years. Weibull, Epstein and Sobel had made a significant influence on the distribution functions we used today. Lotka, Campbell, Feller, Cox, Smith, Barlow, Proschan, Hunter, Marshall, Esary, Gnedenko, Belyaev, and Solov'yev had advanced the theories for reliability. Takacs' paper in sojourn time provided an initiative to the asymptotic studies. Birnbaum started a whole family on component importance measure for coherent structure.en
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dc.identifier.citation0149-144X; P A REL MAI, 2004, vol. , no. , p.102 to 109.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RAMS.2004.1285431
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/2786
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.statusPeer revieweden
dc.subjecthistoryen
dc.subjectsurveyen
dc.subjectrenewal theoryen
dc.subjectdistributionen
dc.subjectanalytical techniquesen
dc.subjectreliability modelsen
dc.subjectcoherent structureen
dc.subjectMONOTONE HAZARD RATEen
dc.subjectNON-COHERENT SYSTEMSen
dc.subjectFAULT-TREE MODELSen
dc.subjectCONFIDENCE-INTERVALSen
dc.subjectWEIBULL DISTRIBUTIONen
dc.subjectBINOMIAL SUBSYSTEMSen
dc.subjectPRIME IMPLICANTSen
dc.subjectRENEWAL THEORYen
dc.subjectCOMPONENTSen
dc.subjectREDUNDANCYen
dc.titlePioneers of the reliability theories of the past 50 yearsen
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