In previous studies of shock models, the probability of shocks causing damage to the system
during operation is always constant. However, it is more practical for the system to become …

Safety critical systems such as aircrafts, submarines and space stations are required to
perform various missions. To enhance the survivability of such systems, a mission can be …

Due to practical engineering applications, the research on balanced systems has moved
into development in recent years. The concept of balance differs from various perspectives …

Mission abort policies have been investigated for both single-attempt and multi-attempt
missions in the last decade. The existing models typically assumed a single task performed …

For systems operating in random environments, shock number threshold-based mission
abort policies (MAP) have been modeled and optimized for balancing the mission success …

This book is about point processes and their applications in reliability and risk analysis. In
the first part, we provide a general introduction to the 'basic'point processes and discuss …

Despite considerable research efforts devoted to the mission aborting policies for diverse
systems, little work considered the effects of loading and the existing models assumed …

An extreme shock model when there is a change in the distribution of the magnitudes of
shocks is defined and studied. Such a model is useful in practice since a sudden change in …

Many real‐world critical systems, eg, aircrafts, manned space flight systems, and
submarines, utilize mission aborts to enhance their survivability. Specifically, a mission can …

Protective devices can reduce system failure risks by protecting systems from external
shocks and therefore play a critical role in the stable operations of safety–critical systems …