Title
Parametric nonlinear programming approach for a repairable system with switching failure and fuzzy parameters
Abstract
This paper proposes a procedure to construct the membership functions of the system characteristics of a repairable system with two primary units, one standby unit, and one repair facility when switching to standby may fail. Failure times of primary and standby units are assumed to follow fuzzified exponential distributions, and repair times of the failed units are also assumed to have a fuzzified exponential distribution. The @a-cut approach is used to extract from the fuzzy repairable system from a family of conventional crisp intervals for the desired system characteristics, determined with a set of parametric nonlinear programs using their membership functions. A numerical example is solved successfully to illustrate the practicality of the proposed approach. Because the system characteristics are governed by the membership functions, more information is provided for use by designers and practitioners. The successful extension of the parameter spaces to fuzzy environments permits the repairable system to have wider practical applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.amc.2006.05.119
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
fuzzy sets,fuzzy parameter,a-cut approach,repairable system,standby unit,mean time to failure,system characteristic,fuzzy environment,availability,membership function,primary unit,fuzzy repairable system,mathematical programming,fuzzified exponential distribution,switching failure,parametric nonlinear programming approach,exponential distribution,nonlinear programming,fuzzy set,parameter space
Mean time between failures,Mathematical optimization,Nonlinear system,Parametric programming,Control theory,Nonlinear programming,Fuzzy logic,Fuzzy set,Parametric statistics,Membership function,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
183
1
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.75
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hsin-I. Huang1435.05
Chuen-Horng Lin223115.93
Jau-Chuan Ke334844.17