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

Table 7

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	0.100	0	1.605	0	14.430
0.1	0	0.100	0	1.610	0	14.460
0.2	0	0.100	0	1.620	0	14.520
0.3	0	0.100	0	1.630	0	14.580