Bücher von Ilya Gertsbakh

This introductory book equips the reader to apply the core concepts and methods of network reliability analysis to real-life problems. Based on the lecture notes of eight courses taught by the authors, the book is also self-contained, with no theory needed beyond the lectures.

The increase in the requirements on the reliability of units makes it necessary to analyze the relationship between mathematicalmeth ods of calculating reliability and the physical nature of fail ures.

This book deals with reliability investigations of networks whose components subject to failures can be in three states -up, down and middle (mid), contrary to traditionally considered networks having only binary (up/down) components.

This allows to develop a probabilistic follow-up analysis of the network in the process of its gradual destruction, to identify most important network components and to develop efficient heuristic algorithms for network optimal design.

Well written textbook on industrial applications of Statistical Measurement Theory. Each topic starts with an informal introduction followed by an example, the rigorous problem formulation, solution method, and a detailed numerical solution.