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Most books on reliability theory are devoted to traditional binary reliability models allowing for only two possible states for a system and its components: per
Many real systems are composed of multi-state components with different performance levels and several failure modes. These affect the whole system's performanc
This book offers a comprehensive overview of recently developed methods for assessing and optimizing system reliability. It consists of two main parts, for trea
This volume contains 28 papers by renowned international experts on the latest advances in structural reliability methods and applications, engineering risk ana