Methods and algorithms for evaluating unknown parameters of components reliability of complex technical systems

The paper objectives are to present the methods and tools useful in the statistical identifying the unknown parameters of the components reliability and safety of complex industrial systems and to apply them in the maritime industry. There are presented statistical methods of estimating the unknown intensities of departure from the reliability state subsets of the exponential distribution of the component lifetimes of the multistate systems operating in various operation states. The goodness-of-fit method applied to testing the hypotheses concerned with the exponential form of the multistate reliability function of the particular components of the complex technical system in variable operations conditions is suggested. An application of these tools to reliability characteristics of a ferry operating at the Baltic Sea waters is presented as well.