Reuse and remanufacturing have been widely studied in the maintenance related literature
due to the imperative of preserving resources and protecting the environment. To provide …

Abstract System safety assessment is a technique aiming at identifying hazards for the
system under analysis and showing the compliance with the safety requirements. In order to …

In order to identify the vulnerable components and ensure the required reliability of
mechatronics systems, importance measures of critical components are crucially used in the …

The mixed redundancy strategy is a recently introduced powerful redundancy technique for
improving system reliability. So far, the performance of the mixed redundancy strategy is just …

Safety-critical systems have been widely applied in various practical engineering fields to
perform specific missions. Failures of such systems will lead to significant damage, thus …

This paper models a dual-unit standby system with non-identical, reusable units that perform
the mission task alternatively according to a pre-specified replacement and maintenance …

Recent studies have shown that elements reusing through preventive replacements is
beneficial in enhancing the mission success probability (MSP) of standby systems. While …

Recent studies have shown that reusing standby elements during the mission may improve
the mission success probability significantly. However, such a benefit cannot be effectively …

Traditional reliability models typically assume that a system can operate until it is failed or
not needed due to the mission completion. In practice, the system may have limited resource …

Traditional standby system models predominantly assume that a standby unit is activated
only after an active unit fails. However, a periodic active switching policy is adopted for some …