
In reliability theory, as in any theory, we think and operate in terms of models. In this chapter we investigate a model of a system,which consists of elements or components. Our purpose is to develop a formal instrument to enable us to receive information about a system’s reliability from information about the reliability of its components. The exposition in this section does not involve probabilistic notions.
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