Article ID: | iaor20041822 |
Country: | Serbia |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 227 |
End Page Number: | 236 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Journal: | Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research |
Authors: | Hsieh Yi-Chih |
Provision of redundant components in parallel is an efficient way to increase the system reliability, however, the weight, volume and cost of the system will increase simultaneously. This paper proposes a new two-phase linear programming approach for solving the nonlinear redundancy allocation problems subject to multiple linear constraints. The first phase is used to approximately allocate the resource by using a general linear programming, while the second phase is used to re-allocate the slacks of resource by using a 0–1 integer linear programming. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach.