General Monte Carlo Reliability Simulation Code Including Common Mode Failuresand Harp Fault/Error-Handling

摘要

A Monte Carlo Fortran computer program was developed that uses two variancereduction techniques for computing system reliability applicable to solving very large highly reliable fault-tolerant systems. The program is consistent with the hybrid automated reliability predictor (HARP) code which employs behavioral decomposition and complex fault-error handling models. This new capability is called MC-HARP which efficiently solves reliability models with non-constant failures rates (Weibull). Common mode failure modeling is also a specialty.