Reliability of demand‐based warm standby systems subject to fault level coverage

Q Zhai, R Peng, L Xing, J Yang - Applied Stochastic Models in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
For mission‐critical or safety‐critical systems, redundancy techniques are often applied to
satisfy the stringent reliability requirements of the system design. Warm standby sparing is a …

Optimization of component allocation/distribution and sequencing in warm standby series-parallel systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing works on redundancy allocation problems have typically focused on active or cold
standby redundancies or a mix of them; little research is dedicated to warm standby systems …

Cold vs. hot standby mission operation cost minimization for 1-out-of-N systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - European Journal of Operational Research, 2014 - Elsevier
It is well recognized that using the hot standby redundancy provides fast restoration in the
case of failures. However the redundant elements are exposed to working stresses before …

Minimum mission cost cold-standby sequencing in non-repairable multi-phase systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the optimal cold standby element sequencing problem (SESP) for 1-
out-of-n: G heterogeneous non-repairable cold-standby systems that accomplish multi …

Optimal completed work dependent loading of components in cold standby systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - International Journal of General Systems, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers the modelling and optimization of 1-out-of-N: G cold standby (CS)
systems with non-repairable components functioning at different levels of productivity or …

Cold-standby sequencing optimization considering mission cost

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper considers the optimal standby component sequencing problem (SESP) for 1-out-
of-N: G heterogeneous cold-standby systems. Given the desired cold-standby redundancy …

Optimization of predetermined standby mode transfers in 1-out-of-N: G systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
Warm standby redundancy is an important fault-tolerant design technique for improving the
reliability of many systems used in life-critical or mission-critical applications. Traditional …

Reliability versus expected mission cost and uncompleted work in heterogeneous warm standby multiphase systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers 1-out-of-N: G warm standby (WS) systems subject to multiple-phased
mission requirements, where performance, failure behavior, operation cost, replacement …

Reliability assessment and activation sequence optimization of non-repairable multi-state generation systems considering warm standby

H Jia, Y Ding, R Peng, H Liu, Y Song - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2020 - Elsevier
Warm standby has been widely applied to power generation systems to ensure safe and
reliable operation with lower energy consumption and shorter leading time compared with …

Optimal non-periodic replacement and reactivation in standby systems with protection and maintenance options

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional standby system models have mostly assumed that each element can be online
and used once during the mission time. In practice especially when a long mission task is …