TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1981//
TI  - Reliability of systems with various functions
JO  - Reliability engineering
A1  - Nicolescu, T.
A1  - Weber, R.
SP  - 147
EP  - 157
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
N2  - The technical system considered is supposed to fulfil various functions. For each of these functions a corresponding subsystem is defined in terms of the system components. Generally different subsystems may have common components. Therefore these subsystems are statistically dependent even if the components are independent.  Often one is interested in the probability that certain functions are fulfilled whereas the remaining functions fail. The method presented here allows a conservative approximation of this probability in a straightforward way.<p /> 
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SN  - 0143-8174
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0143-8174(81)90020-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -