Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 176-185Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2014.07.024
Keywords
Monte Carlo simulation; Importance index; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty propagation; Unscented transformation
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The reliability of a system, notwithstanding it intended function, can be significantly affected by the uncertainty in the reliability estimate of the components that define the system. This paper implements the Unscented Transformation to quantify the effects of the uncertainty of component reliability through two approaches. The first approach is based on the concept of uncertainty propagation, which is the assessment of the effect that the variability of the component reliabilities produces on the variance of the system reliability. This assessment based on UT has been previously considered in the literature but only for system represented through series/parallel configuration. In this paper the assessment is extended to systems whose reliability cannot be represented through analytical expressions and require, for example, Monte Carlo Simulation. The second approach consists on the evaluation of the importance of components, i.e., the evaluation of the components that most contribute to the variance of the system reliability. An extension of the UT is proposed to evaluate the so called main effects of each component, as well to assess high order component interaction. Several examples with excellent results illustrate the proposed approach. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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