Analysis of k-out-of-n Redundant Reliability Systems with Multiple Constraints

Issue: Vol.4 No.2

Authors:

Dr. A. Sridhar (Vignan’s Institute of Engineering for Women, Visakhapatnam)

S. Pavankumar (SBIT Engineering College, Khammam)

Dr. Y. Raghunatha Reddy (Rayalaseema University, Kurnool)

Dr. C. Umashankar (Rayalaseema University, Kurnool)

Keywords: IRM, k-out-of-n systems, heuristic, Dynamic, Langrangean and Sensitivity Analysis.

Abstract: 

In today’s competitive environment organizations are being constantly challenged to improve performance and reduce costs. By effectively applying reliability engineering techniques you can achieve dramatic improvements in the reliability and availability of process plant resulting in savings of up to 10% in capital costs and similar savings in plant operation. Generally the reliability of a system is treated as function of cost, but in many real life situations other considerations apart from conventional cost constraint like weight, volume, size, space etc., play vital role in optimizing the system reliability. Quite a few IRM’s are reported with cost constraint only in optimizing the system reliability. As the literature informs that few authors mentioned IRM’S with Redundancy and this paper focuses a novel method of optimizing a Redundant IRM with multiple constraints to encounter the hidden impact of additional constraints apart from the cost constraint while the system is optimized by considering the k-out-of-n configuration system.

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