System Reliability Optimization Problems with Several Failure Modes by Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

Genetic algorithms have been quite successfully applied to various optimization problems such as scheduling, transportation problems, traveling salesman problems, optimal control problems, and so on.In this paper, we propose an efficient method for solving a system reliability optimization problem based on genetic algorithm. In order to illustrate the effectiveness of the method proposed here, we deal with a numerical example of a reliability optimization problem with several failure modes for allocating redundant units.