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Calculating block diagram reliability: Parallel industrial objects with backup

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The paper discusses system reliability: one object and two backup units (the system is viable while one of them remains viable), or two working objects and one backup (system viable only if two objects are working, with one object working at half throughput, and with one object and backup working at half throughput).

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  1. V. I. Mushtaev, F. A. Nesvizhskii, V. S. Shubin, et al., “Evaluating residual working life for equipment in the chemical, petrochemical, and other industries,” Nauk. Tekhnol. Promyshl., No. 12, 44–46 (2003).

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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftegazovoe Mashinostroenie, No. 12, pp. 41–43, December, 2004.

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Mushtaev, V.I., Nesvizhskii, F.A., Shubin, V.S. et al. Calculating block diagram reliability: Parallel industrial objects with backup. Chem Petrol Eng 40, 758–761 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10556-005-0046-1

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