New insights on multi-state component criticality and importance

Coherent Systems with Multi-State Components

Richard E. Barlow, Alexander S. Wu · Mathematics of Operations Research · 1978 · 432 citations

Engineering, Binary Structure, Stochastic Analysis +17

How to Hand-Calculate System Reliability and Safety Characteristics

J.B. Fussell · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1975 · 360 citations

Engineering, Measurement, Safety Science +19

Multistate coherent systems

Emad El-Neweihi, Frank Proschan, Jayaram Sethuraman · Journal of Applied Probability · 1978 · 349 citations

Engineering, Coherent System Reliability, System Reliability +16

Multistate reliability models

William S. Griffith · Journal of Applied Probability · 1980 · 346 citations

Engineering, Relevancy Axiom, System Reliability +17

Redundancy optimization for series-parallel multi-state systems

Gregory Levitin, Anatoly Lisnianski, Hanoch Ben-Haim et al. · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1998 · 319 citations

Redundancy Optimization, Reliability Engineering, Engineering +15