Importance measure-based resilience management: Review, methodology and perspectives on maintenance

H Dui, M Liu, J Song, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, frequent natural or man-made disturbances have accelerated the study of
resilience management. As an important source of system resilience, maintenance activities …

Joint optimization of multi-stage component reassignment and preventive maintenance for balanced systems considering imperfect maintenance

S Wang, X Zhao, C Wu, X Wang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a balanced system consisting of several multi-state components is considered
to work during multiple sequential stages. The system is balanced when the largest state …

An optimizing maintenance policy for airborne redundant systems operating with faults by using Markov process and NSGA-II

D Cheng, Z Lu, J Zhou, X Liang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Redundancy is widely applied in modern airborne systems. Operation with faults in
redundant airborne systems can improve the dispatch reliability of aircraft and reduce …

Co-optimizing component allocation and activation sequence in heterogeneous 1-out-of-n standby system exposed to shocks

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Motivated by real-world applications of cloud computing and unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), this paper models a heterogeneous 1-out-of-n standby system with n components …

A hybrid inspection-replacement policy for multi-stage degradation considering imperfect inspection with variable probabilities

J Wang, X Ma, L Yang, Q Qiu, L Shang… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inspections are crucial to reveal asset health and support preventive maintenance, which,
however, are susceptible to multiple uncertainties due to human errors and limitations of …

Standby mode transfer schedule minimizing downtime of 1-out-of-N system with storage

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Mode transfers have attracted attention from the standby system community as they can
effectively reduce system downtime. However, the existing models are not applicable to …

Optimisation of maintenance policies for a deteriorating multi-component system under external shocks

H Dui, H Zhang, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Many engineering systems are affected by shocks from their operating environments. When
the state of a component degrades to a certain threshold level, preventive maintenance is …

Predetermined standby mode transfers in 1-out-of-N systems with resource-constrained elements

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
It has been shown that mode transfers can effectively balance the resource consumption
and restoration time of standby systems. However, the existing methods assumed unlimited …

Cost-based preventive maintenance of industrial robot system

H Dui, H Xu, L Zhang, J Wang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
The industrial robot plays an increasingly important role in industrial and social activities,
and its performance has a great effect on the entire automatic production line. Most studies …

Performance-based maintenance analysis and resource allocation in irrigation networks

H Dui, X Wei, L Xing, L Chen - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
The irrigation network is a critical infrastructure network consisting of reservoirs, canals, and
croplands. However, the operation of irrigation networks is often disrupted by natural …