This paper presents an overview of the research performed on reliability studies of
consecutive k-out-of-n and related systems during the last decade. In particular, methods for …

In reliability engineering literature, a large number of research papers on optimal preventive
maintenance (PM) of technical systems (networks) have appeared based on preliminary …

Following a review of the basic ideas in structural reliability, including signature‐based
representation and preservation theorems for systems whose components have …

We introduce two new families of univariate distributions that we call hyperminimal and
hypermaximal distributions. These families have interesting applications in the context of …

This textbook provides the tools for a modern post-graduate introductory course on system
reliability theory. It focuses on probabilistic aspects of the theory, including recent results …

In summer of 2010, the first author (HL) visited the second author (XL) at Lanzhou University,
China, and chaired the dissertation defense for XL's two graduating doctoral students …

In this paper, we obtain ordering properties for coherent systems with possibly dependent
identically distributed components. These results are based on a representation of the …

The signatures of coherent systems are useful tools to compute the system reliability
functions, the system expected lifetimes and to compare different systems using stochastic …

In reliability engineering, each component of the system, in addition to internal failures, is
usually subject to lethal external shocks. Usually, the random shocks are produced by a …

Sharp bounds on expectations of lifetimes of coherent and mixed systems composed of
elements with independent and either identically or non-identically distributed lifetimes are …