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In reliability theory, as in any theory, we think and operate in terms of models. In this chapter we investigate a model of a system,which consists of elements or components. Our purpose is to develop a formal instrument to enable us to receive information about a system’s reliability from information about the reliability of its components. The exposition in this section does not involve probabilistic notions.
The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts
Willard Gibbs
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Gertsbakh, I. (2005). System Reliability as a Function of Component Reliability. In: Reliability Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04236-6_1
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