Reliability Analysis of the Engineering Systems Using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Theory

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</svg> (hrs) </td><td align="center"> Min </td><td align="center"> Max </td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="5"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Bleaching Tank </td><td align="center"> 0.00005408–0.00011232 </td><td align="center"> 1.6250–3.3750 </td><td align="center">0.99982662 </td><td align="center">0.99991230 </td></tr><tr><td align="left">Filter </td><td align="center"> 0.004550–0.009450 </td><td align="center"> 1.3000–2.7000 </td><td align="center">0.97486818 </td><td align="center">0.99405300 </td></tr><tr><td align="left">Washer </td><td align="center"> 0.005850–0.012150 </td><td align="center"> 1.9500–4.0500 </td><td align="center">0.95358060 </td><td align="center">0.98852416 </td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="5"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Effect of simultaneous variations of system’s components’ failure and repair times on its availability index.

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Table 5: Reliability Analysis of the Engineering Systems Using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Theory 