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    Citation - WoS: 38
    Citation - Scopus: 46
    Generalizing the Survival Signature To Unrepairable Homogeneous Multi-State Systems
    (Wiley, 2016) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Tuncel, Altan
    The notion of signature has been widely applied for the reliability evaluation of technical systems that consist of binary components. Multi-state system modeling is also widely used for representing real life engineering systems whose components can have different performance levels. In this article, the concept of survival signature is generalized to a certain class of unrepairable homogeneous multi-state systems with multi-state components. With such a generalization, a representation for the survival function of the time spent by a system in a specific state or above is obtained. The findings of the article are illustrated for multi-state consecutive-k-out-of-n system which perform its task at three different performance levels. The generalization of the concept of survival signature to a multi-state system with multiple types of components is also presented. (C) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
    Citation - Scopus: 6
    On Profust Reliability of Coherent Systems: Signature-Based Expressions
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2013) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Rouyendegh, Babak Daneshvar
    In this article we study profust reliability of non-repairable coherent systems through the concept of system signature. We obtain explicit expressions for the profust reliability and mean time to fuzzy failure of coherent systems. We compute and present mean time to failure and mean time to fuzzy failure of all coherent systems with three and four components. Finally, we illustrate the results for a well known class of coherent systems called m-consecutive-k-out-of-n:F.
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    Citation - WoS: 10
    Citation - Scopus: 10
    Systems Composed of Two Types of Nonidentical and Dependent Components
    (Wiley-blackwell, 2015) Eryilmaz, Serkan; Eryılmaz, Serkan; Eryılmaz, Serkan; Industrial Engineering; Industrial Engineering
    A coherent system of order n that consists two different types of dependent components is considered. The lifetimes of the components in each group are assumed to follow an exchangeable joint distribution, and the two random vectors, which represent the lifetimes of the components in each group are also assumed to be dependent. Under this particular form of dependence, all components are assumed to be dependent but they are categorized with respect to their reliability functions. Mixture representation is obtained for the survival function of the system's lifetime. Mixture representations are also obtained for the series and parallel systems consisting of disjoint modules such that all components of Type I are involved in one module (subsystem) and all components of Type II are placed in the other module. The theoretical results are illustrated with examples. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 62: 388-394, 2015