Reliability Analysis of Redundant Networks Using Flow Graphs

A flow graph approach for reliability analysis is applied to redundancy with elements in the simple series-parallel networks and to the more general case with elements in non-series-parallel combinations. The reliability of networks for elements with open or short failures is analyzed with flow graphs. Typical examples are shown.

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