Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Systems of Components with Potentially Brittle Behavior by Universal Generating Function and Linear Programming

Table 2

Failure probability of roof truss of components with potentially brittle behavior.

Pbi	Bounds by RLP bounds method (×10^−2)
	ρ = 0.1		ρ = 0.5		ρ = 0.9
	Lower bound	Upper bound	Lower bound	Upper bound	Lower bound	Upper bound
0.05	1.451	1.454	0.641	1.198	0.119	0.598
0.1	1.472	1.477	0.652	1.216	0.137	0.615
0.2	1.514	1.524	0.674	1.252	0.174	0.650
0.3	1.556	1.571	0.696	1.288	0.211	0.685