Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tip** point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

The objective of this work is to determine and study, analyze and elaborate, classify and
categorize the main risk analysis and risk-assessment methods and techniques by …

Selective maintenance, which aims to choose a subset of feasible maintenance actions to
be performed for a repairable system with limited maintenance resources, has been …

The multistate networks under consideration consist of a source node, a sink node, and
some independent failure-prone components in between the nodes. The components can …

In many industrial and military environments, systems are required to execute a sequence of
missions with a finite break between two adjacent missions. Due to the limited maintenance …

The performance analysis of the evaporation and crystallization unit of a sugar plant is
explored in the current study. It is an important unit requiring more concentration to increase …

Fault tree analysis remains the most commonly employed method, particularly in the safety
critical industries, to predict the probability or frequency of system failures. Whilst it has its …

This paper proposes a substructure-based distributed-collaborative surrogate modeling
approach for improving the accuracy and efficiency in the estimation of the creep-fatigue …

This paper presents & evaluates composite importance measures (CIM) for multi-state
systems with multi-state components (MSMC). Importance measures are important tools to …

Most research on network reliability has considered links to have a binary state, ie,
functioning or failed, whereas nodes are considered flawless. In a more realistic scenario …