In recent years, frequent natural or man-made disturbances have been accelerating the
study of resilience management. As an important source of system resilience, maintenance …

Numerous maintenance strategies have been proposed in the literature related to reliability.
This paper focuses on the utilization of reliability importance measures to optimize …

Safety-critical systems have been widely applied in various practical engineering fields to
perform specific missions. Failures of such systems will lead to significant damage, thus …

This paper proposes an approach to select a maintenance strategy from a predefined set of
choices considering the decision maker's behavioral risk profile. It is assumed that the …

Featured Application The classification problem is one of the problems often used in medical
applications. The proposed method can be used to quantify the influence of the classification …

In order to improve the lifetime and reliability of equipment operation stage, it is necessary to
carry out maintenance for components. The typical selective maintenance model does not …

Importance measures have been widely used as meaningful decision-aiding indicators in
reliability engineering, risk management and maintenance optimization. However, few …

Although some reliability importance measures and maintenance policies for mechanical
products exist in literature, they are rarely investigated with reference to weakest component …

This chapter presents some advanced topics referring to reliability and availability analysis
of engineering systems using Markovian models. These models are particularly useful when …

Previous research shows the significance of maintenance in enhancing performance levels
and reducing system costs of equipment. This paper aims to develop a quantitative model …