This paper is a state-of-art review of the literature related to optimal system reliability with redundancy. The literature is classified as follows. Optimal system reliability models with redundancy Series Parallel Series-parallel Parallel-series Standby Complex (nonseries, nonparallel) Optimization techniques for obtaining optimal system configuration Integer programming Dynamic programming Maximum principle Linear programming Geometric programming Sequential unconstrained minimization technique (SUMT) Modified sequential simplex pattern search Lagrange multipliers and Kuhn-Tucker conditions Generalized Lagrangian function Generalized reduced gradient (GRG) Heuristic approaches Parametric approaches Pseudo-Boolean programming Miscellaneous

Optimization Techniques for System Reliability with RedundancyߞA Review

On Optimal Reliability Design: A Review

Reliability is one of the most important attributes of performance in arriving at the optimal design of a system since it directly and significantly influences the system’s performance and its life cycle costs. Poor reliability would greatly increase life-cycle costs of the system, and reliability based design must be carried out if the system is to achieve its desired performance. An optimal reliability design is one in which all possible means available to a designer have been explored to enhance the reliability of the system with minimum cost under the constraints imposed on the development of a system.

K.B. Misra

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Reliability optimization with integer constraint coefficients