Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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803388 | Reliability Engineering & System Safety | 2009 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We present a heuristic approach to solve a general framework of serial–parallel redundancy problem where the reliability of the system is maximized subject to some general linear constraints. The complexity of the redundancy problem is generally considered to be NP-Hard and the optimal solution is not normally available. Therefore, to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, a hybrid genetic algorithm is also implemented whose parameters are calibrated via Taguchi's robust design method. Then, various test problems are solved and the computational results indicate that the proposed heuristic approach could provide us some promising reliabilities, which are fairly close to optimal solutions in a reasonable amount of time.
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Authors
Seyed Jafar Sadjadi, R. Soltani,