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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 1144-1152.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-1093.2016.06.025

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Overall Optimization of Reliability and Maintainability of Major Weapon System

LYU Jian-wei, XU Yi-fan, XIE Zong-ren   

  1. (Department of Management Science, Naval Univiversity of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, Hubei, China)
  • Received:2015-12-10 Revised:2015-12-10 Online:2016-08-06
  • Contact: LYU Jian-wei E-mail:l2015wh@163.com

Abstract: The availability is an important part of weapon system effectiveness, and also the prerequisite for achieving the conventional technical performance. By the discussion of the hierarchical structure of weapon system and the basic formulas for its availability, a fundamental principle of coordinating and improving the availability indicators among different subsystems is proposed based on mathematical analysis. The effect of improving difficulty of subsystem availability on improving order is discussed according to engineering practice. And an optimization method and its algorithm are designed for subsystem availability, equipment-level reliability and maintainability. Furthermore, based on a type of navy vessel, the feasibility and validity of the proposed algorithm are verified by Matlab programming. A theoretical basis and implementation approach are provided to obtain and improve the total availability with minimum cost, and take different equipment reliability and maintainability of different subsystems as an integration indicator.

Key words: ordnance science and technology, weapon system, availability, subsystem and equipment, reliability, maintainability, overall optimization

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