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    Citation - WoS: 36
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    Modeling and Analysis of Weighted-k-out-of-n< G System Consisting of Two Different Types of Components
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2014) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Sarikaya, Kadir
    This article is concerned with the reliability analysis of a weighted-k-out-of-n: G system consisting of two types of components. The system is assumed to have n components which are classified into two groups with respect to their weight and reliability, and it is assumed to operate if the total weight of all working components exceeds a prespecified threshold k. The reliability properties of such a system are studied. The optimal values of the number of components in each group are also determined under a minimum required reliability by minimizing the total acquisition cost.
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    Citation - WoS: 10
    Citation - Scopus: 11
    Consecutive k-out-of-n< Lines With a Change Point
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2016) Eryilmaz, Serkan
    Reliability analysis of consecutive k-out-of-n systems and their generalizations has attracted a great deal of attention in the literature. Such systems have been used to model telecommunication networks, oil pipeline systems, vacuum systems in accelerators, spacecraft relay stations, etc. In this paper, nonrecursive closed form equations are presented for the reliability functions and mean time to failure values of consecutive k-out-of-n systems consisting of two types of nonidentical components. The results are illustrated for reliability evaluation of oil pipeline system.
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    Citation - WoS: 43
    Citation - Scopus: 44
    Reliability Assessment of System Under a Generalized Cumulative Shock Model
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2020) Gong, Min; Eryilmaz, Serkan; Xie, Min
    Reliability assessment of system suffering from random shocks is attracting a great deal of attention in recent years. Excluding internal factors such as aging and wear-out, external shocks which lead to sudden changes in the system operation environment are also important causes of system failure. Therefore, efficiently modeling the reliability of such system is an important applied problem. A variety of shock models are developed to model the inter-arrival time between shocks and magnitude of shocks. In a cumulative shock model, the system fails when the cumulative magnitude of damage caused by shocks exceed a threshold. Nevertheless, in the existing literatures, only the magnitude is taken into consideration, while the source of shocks is usually neglected. Using the same distribution to model the magnitude of shocks from different sources is too critical in real practice. To this end, considering a system subject to random shocks from various sources with different probabilities, we develop a generalized cumulative shock model in this article. We use phase-type distribution to model the variables, which is highly versatile to be used for modeling quantitative features of random phenomenon. We will discuss the reliability characteristics of such system in some detail and give some clear expressions under the one-dimensional case. Numerical example for illustration is also provided along with a summary.