Heuristics for the Computation of the Availability / Reliability for Passive R/n Redundancy with Potential Breakdowns on Solicitation
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Among the diierent r/n redundancies, it is necessary to distinguish between the (classic) case of active redundancies (hot standby) and the case of passive redundancies (cold standby) presenting failures at calling instant. This paper deals with passive redundancy including such solicitation failures: redundancy elements only operate in case of the failure of initial elements and have a non negligible probability of failing at the instant of solicitation. In this paper we propose some heuristics in order to integrate their computations in large optimization software using iterative schemes.
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