Abstract
A survey of the research done on reliability of systems exhibiting two dual modes of failure, which are often called open and short, is given. Particular attention is paid to books and papers published after the 1977 review by Dhillon [32]. The present survey discusses the different terminology and approaches that appear in the literature and covers results concerning mainly the following topics: the optimal structure of the system, the optimal allocation of units, Markov and semi-Markov models of systems with repairable units and investigation of the structures of particular importance — series-parallel, k-out-of-n:G and logic circuits.
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