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

Table 5

Failure probability of parallel system of components with potentially brittle behavior.

Pbi	Bounds by RLP bounds method (×10^−3)
	ρ = 0.1		ρ = 0.5		ρ = 0.9
	Lower bound	Upper bound	Lower bound	Upper bound	Lower bound	Upper bound
0.05	0	0.050	0	1.105	0	9.515
0.1	0	0.050	0	1.110	0	9.530
0.2	0	0.050	0	1.120	0	9.560
0.3	0	0.050	0	1.130	0	9.590