Research Article

Fuzzy Availability Assessment for a Repairable Multistate Series-Parallel System

Table 4

The -cut of the fuzzy steady-state availability at 11 values.

Liu’s methodProposed method

0.0[0.6977, 0.8861][0.6986, 0.8842]
0.1[0.7119, 0.8799][0.7136, 0.8790]
0.2[0.7257, 0.8737][0.7284, 0.8740]
0.3[0.7392, 0.8676][0.7430, 0.8692]
0.4[0.7522, 0.8618][0.7576, 0.8650]
0.5[0.7608, 0.8526][0.7649, 0.8553]
0.6[0.7673, 0.8417][0.7700, 0.8436]
0.7[0.7701, 0.8275][0.7712, 0.8283]
0.8[0.7745, 0.8136][0.7745, 0.8136]
0.9[0.7849, 0.8045][0.7849, 0.8045]
1.0[0.7949, 0.7949][0.7949, 0.7949]