Reliability behaviour of a power plant by boolean function technique under arbitrary failure time distribution

Abstract

In this paper investigations have been carried out for the reliability analysis of a power plant by Boolean function technique. Failure times for the various components of the power plant have been assumed to follow either Weibull or exponential time distributions. Moreover, an important parameter of reliability, viz. M.T.T.F. (mean time to failure), has been computed for exponential failure time distribution. Some numerical examples along with graphs on reliability and M.T.T.F. have also been appended at the end to highlight the important results.