Mathematical Problems in Engineering Mathematical Applications to Reliability and Maintenance Problems in Engineering Systems Guest Editors: Wenbin Wang, Philip Scarf, Shaomin Wu, and Enrico Zio Mathematical Applications to Reliability and Maintenance Problems in Engineering Systems Mathematical Problems in Engineering Mathematical Applications to Reliability and Maintenance Problems in Engineering Systems Guest Editors: Wenbin Wang, Philip Scarf, Shaomin Wu, and Enrico Zio Copyright © 2015 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Mathematical Problems in Engineering.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Mohamed Abd El Aziz, Egypt Abdel-Ouahab Boudraa, France Ahmed El Hajjaji, France Farid Abed-Meraim, France Francesco Braghin, Italy Fouad Erchiqui, Canada Silvia Abrahao,˜ Spain Michael J. Brennan, UK Anders Eriksson, Sweden Paolo Addesso, Italy Maurizio Brocchini, Italy Giovanni Falsone, Italy Claudia Adduce, Italy Julien Bruchon, France Hua Fan, China Ramesh Agarwal, USA Javier Buldufh, Spain Yann Favennec, France Juan C. Aguero,¨ Australia Tito Busani, USA Roberto Fedele, Italy Ricardo Aguilar-Lopez,´ Mexico Pierfrancesco Cacciola, UK Giuseppe Fedele, Italy Tarek Ahmed-Ali, France Salvatore Caddemi, Italy Jacques Ferland, Canada Hamid Akbarzadeh, Canada Jose E. Capilla, Spain Jose R. Fernandez, Spain Muhammad N. Akram, Norway Ana Carpio, Spain S. D. Flapper, Netherlands Mohammad-Reza Alam, USA Miguel E. Cerrolaza, Spain Thierry Floquet, France Salvatore Alfonzetti, Italy Mohammed Chadli, France Eric Florentin, France Francisco Alhama, Spain Gregory Chagnon, France Francesco Franco, Italy Juan A. Almendral, Spain Ching-Ter Chang, Taiwan Tomonari Furukawa, USA Saiied Aminossadati, Australia Michael J. Chappell, UK Mohamed Gadala, Canada Lionel Amodeo, France Kacem Chehdi, France Matteo Gaeta, Italy Igor Andrianov, Germany Xinkai Chen, Japan Zoran Gajic, USA Sebastian Anita, Romania Chunlin Chen, China CiprianG.Gal,USA Renata Archetti, Italy Francisco Chicano, Spain Ugo Galvanetto, Italy Felice Arena, Italy Hung-Yuan Chung, Taiwan Akemi Galvez,´ Spain Sabri Arik, Turkey Joaquim Ciurana, Spain Rita Gamberini, Italy Fumihiro Ashida, Japan John D. Clayton, USA Maria Gandarias, Spain Hassan Askari, Canada Carlo Cosentino, Italy Arman Ganji, Canada Mohsen Asle Zaeem, USA Paolo Crippa, Italy Zhong-Ke Gao, China Francesco Aymerich, Italy Erik Cuevas, Mexico Xin-Lin Gao, USA Seungik Baek, USA Peter Dabnichki, Australia Giovanni Garcea, Italy Khaled Bahlali, France Luca D’Acierno, Italy Fernando Garca, Spain Laurent Bako, France Weizhong Dai, USA Laura Gardini, Italy Stefan Balint, Romania Purushothaman Damodaran, USA A. Gasparetto, Italy Alfonso Banos, Spain Farhang Daneshmand, Canada Vincenzo Gattulli, Italy Roberto Baratti, Italy FabioDeAngelis,Italy J. Geiser, Germany Martino Bardi, Italy Stefano de Miranda, Italy Oleg V. Gendelman, Israel Azeddine Beghdadi, France Filippo de Monte, Italy Mergen H. Ghayesh, Australia Abdel-Hakim Bendada, Canada Xavier Delorme, France Anna M. Gil-Lafuente, Spain Ivano Benedetti, Italy Luca Deseri, USA Hector Gomez,´ Spain Elena Benvenuti, Italy Yannis Dimakopoulos, Greece Rama S. R. Gorla, USA Jamal Berakdar, Germany Zhengtao Ding, UK Oded Gottlieb, Israel Enrique Berjano, Spain Ralph B. Dinwiddie, USA Antoine Grall, France Jean-Charles Beugnot, France Mohamed Djemai, France Jason Gu, Canada Simone Bianco, Italy Alexandre B. Dolgui, France Quang Phuc Ha, Australia David Bigaud, France George S. Dulikravich, USA Ofer Hadar, Israel Jonathan N. Blakely, USA Bogdan Dumitrescu, Finland Masoud Hajarian, Iran Paul Bogdan, USA Horst Ecker, Austria F. Hamelin, France Daniela Boso, Italy Karen Egiazarian, Finland Zhen-Lai Han, China Thomas Hanne, Switzerland Panos Liatsis, UK Eva Onaindia, Spain Takashi Hasuike, Japan Wanquan Liu, Australia J. Ortega-Garcia, Spain Xiao-Qiao He, China Yan-Jun Liu, China A. Ortega-Monux,˜ Spain Mar´ıa I. Herreros, Spain Peide Liu, China Naohisa Otsuka, Japan Vincent Hilaire, France Peter Liu, Taiwan Erika Ottaviano, Italy Eckhard Hitzer, Japan Jean J. Loiseau, France Alkiviadis Paipetis, Greece Jaromir Horacek, Czech Republic Paolo Lonetti, Italy Alessandro Palmeri, UK Muneo Hori, Japan L. M. Lopez-Ochoa,´ Spain Anna Pandolfi, Italy A. Horvth, Italy V. C. Loukopoulos, Greece Elena Panteley, France Gordon Huang, Canada Valentin Lychagin, Norway Manuel Pastor, Spain Sajid Hussain, Canada Fazal Mahomed, South Africa P. N. Pathirana, Australia Asier Ibeas, Spain Yassir T. Makkawi, UK F. Pellicano, Italy Giacomo Innocenti, Italy Noureddine Manamanni, France Haipeng Peng, China Emilio Insfran, Spain Didier Maquin, France Mingshu Peng, China Nazrul Islam, USA Paolo Maria Mariano, Italy Zhike Peng, China Payman Jalali, Finland Benoit Marx, France Marzio Pennisi, Italy Reza Jazar, Australia G. A. Maugin, France Matjaz Perc, Slovenia Khalide Jbilou, France Driss Mehdi, France Francesco Pesavento, Italy Linni Jian, China Roderick Melnik, Canada Maria do R. Pinho, Portugal Zhongping Jiang, USA Pasquale Memmolo, Italy Antonina Pirrotta, Italy Bin Jiang, China Xiangyu Meng, Canada Vicent Pla, Spain Ningde Jin, China Jose Merodio, Spain Javier Plaza, Spain Grand R. Joldes, Australia Luciano Mescia, Italy J. Ponsart, France Joaquim J. Judice, Portugal Laurent Mevel, France Mauro Pontani, Italy Tadeusz Kaczorek, Poland Yuri V. Mikhlin, Ukraine Stanislav Potapenko, Canada Tamas Kalmar-Nagy, Hungary Aki Mikkola, Finland Sergio Preidikman, USA Tomasz Kapitaniak, Poland Hiroyuki Mino, Japan C. Pretty, New Zealand Haranath Kar, India Pablo Mira, Spain Carsten Proppe, Germany K. Karamanos, Belgium Vito Mocella, Italy Luca Pugi, Italy Chaudry Khalique, South Africa Roberto Montanini, Italy Yuming Qin, China Nam-Il Kim, Korea Gisele Mophou, France Dane Quinn, USA Do Wan Kim, Korea Rafael Morales, Spain Jose Ragot, France Oleg Kirillov, Germany Aziz Moukrim, France K. R. Rajagopal, USA Manfred Krafczyk, Germany Emiliano Mucchi, Italy Gianluca Ranzi, Australia Frederic Kratz, France Domenico Mundo, Italy Sivaguru Ravindran, USA Jurgen Kurths, Germany Jose J. Munoz,˜ Spain Alessandro Reali, Italy K. Kyamakya, Austria Giuseppe Muscolino, Italy Giuseppe Rega, Italy Davide La Torre, Italy Marco Mussetta, Italy Oscar Reinoso, Spain Risto Lahdelma, Finland Hakim Naceur, France Nidhal Rezg, France Hak-Keung Lam, UK Hassane Naji, France Ricardo Riaza, Spain Antonino Laudani, Italy Dong Ngoduy, UK Gerasimos Rigatos, Greece Aime’ Lay-Ekuakille, Italy Tatsushi Nishi, Japan JoseRodellar,Spain´ Marek Lefik, Poland Ben T. Nohara, Japan R. Rodriguez-Lopez, Spain Yaguo Lei, China Mohammed Nouari, France Ignacio Rojas, Spain Thibault Lemaire, France Mustapha Nourelfath, Canada Carla Roque, Portugal Stefano Lenci, Italy Sotiris K. Ntouyas, Greece Aline Roumy, France Roman Lewandowski, Poland Roger Ohayon, France Debasish Roy, India QingQ.Liang,Australia Mitsuhiro Okayasu, Japan R. Ruiz Garc´ıa, Spain Antonio Ruiz-Cortes, Spain Francesco Soldovieri, Italy M. E. Vazquez-M´ endez,´ Spain Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Australia Raffaele Solimene, Italy Josep Vehi, Spain Mazen Saad, France Ruben Specogna, Italy Kalyana C. Veluvolu, Korea Kishin Sadarangani, Spain Sri Sridharan, USA F. J. Verbeek, Netherlands Mehrdad Saif, Canada Ivanka Stamova, USA Franck J. Vernerey, USA Miguel A. Salido, Spain Yakov Strelniker, Israel Georgios Veronis, USA Roque J. Saltaren,´ Spain S. A. Suslov, Australia Anna Vila, Spain F. J. Salvador, Spain Thomas Svensson, Sweden R.-J. Villanueva, Spain A. Salvini, Italy Andrzej Swierniak, Poland U. E. Vincent, UK Maura Sandri, Italy Yang Tang, Germany Mirko Viroli, Italy Miguel A. F. Sanjuan, Spain Sergio Teggi, Italy Michael Vynnycky, Sweden Juan F. San-Juan, Spain Roger Temam, USA Junwu Wang, China Roberta Santoro, Italy Alexander Timokha, Norway Shuming Wang, Singapore Ilmar F. Santos, Denmark Rafael Toledo, Spain Yan-Wu Wang , China J. A. Sanz-Herrera, Spain Gisella Tomasini, Italy Yongqi Wang, Germany Nickolas S. Sapidis, Greece F. Tornabene, Italy J. Witteveen, Netherlands E. J. Sapountzakis, Greece Antonio Tornambe, Italy Yuqiang Wu, China Themistoklis P. Sapsis, USA Fernando Torres, Spain Dash Desheng Wu, Canada Andrey V. Savkin, Australia Fabio Tramontana, Italy Xuejun Xie, China Valery Sbitnev, Russia S. Tremblay, Canada Guangming Xie, China Thomas Schuster, Germany I. N. Trendafilova, UK Gen Qi Xu, China Mohammed Seaid, UK George Tsiatas, Greece Hang Xu, China Lotfi Senhadji, France Antonios Tsourdos, UK Xinggang Yan, UK J. Serra-Sagrista, Spain Vladimir Turetsky, Israel Luis J. Yebra, Spain Leonid Shaikhet, Ukraine Mustafa Tutar, Spain Peng-Yeng Yin, Taiwan Hassan M. Shanechi, USA E. Tzirtzilakis, Greece Ibrahim Zeid, USA Sanjay K. Sharma, India Filippo Ubertini, Italy Qingling Zhang, China Bo Shen, Germany Francesco Ubertini, Italy Huaguang Zhang, China Babak Shotorban, USA Hassan Ugail, UK Jian Guo Zhou, UK Zhan Shu, UK Giuseppe Vairo, Italy Quanxin Zhu, China Dan Simon, USA K. Vajravelu, USA Mustapha Zidi, France Luciano Simoni, Italy R. A. Valente, Portugal Alessandro Zona, Italy C. H. Skiadas, Greece Raoul van Loon, UK Michael Small, Australia Pandian Vasant, Malaysia Contents Mathematical Applications to Reliability and Maintenance Problems in Engineering Systems, WenbinWang,PhilipScarf,ShaominWu,andEnricoZio Volume 2015, Article ID 629497,