A project report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Science in Engineering. / The simulator uses the Monte Carlo technique to quickly and accurately
estimate the reliability and availability of complex network systems,
Non-exponential failure and repair distributions are included in the model,
as is standby redundancy and K out of N active redundancy. The program is
easy to use and will work on a large variety of computers and FORTRAN
compilers. Some knowledge of FORTRAN is required to program the
simulator for each reliability network, The simulator is limited to the analysis
of network systems, i.e, those systems whose logic can be fully represented by
a reliability block diagram. The applicability of the model was demonstrated
by the analysis of numerous systems in the aerospace and industrial
environments. Validation of the model was accomplished by comparing these
results with analytically determined values, or those from AMIR and SPAR
where an analytic solution was impossible. / Andrew Chakane 2018
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/25660 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Jenkins, Raymond John |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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