System Reliability Allocation and Optimization Based on Generalized Birnbaum Importance Measure

Importance measure can be used to identify the most vulnerable components with respect to system functionality or failure. Traditional importance measures may not be effective to evaluate the contribution of an individual component if its reliability value does not fall in the full range between 0 and 1. Based on the cost-reliability relation, this paper proposes a generalized Birnbaum importance measure (GBIM) to quantify the contribution of...