Structure functions and minimal path sets

Abstract

In this short note we give and discuss a general multilinear expression of the structure function of an arbitrary semicoherent system in terms of its minimal path and cut sets. We also examine the link between the number of minimal path and cut sets consisting of 1 or 2 components and the concept of structure signature of the system.

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• Computing system signatures through reliability functions
• Computing subsignatures of systems with exchangeable component lifetimes