Reliability analysis of a repairable k-out-of-n system with some components being suspended when the system is down

Xiaohu Li; Ming J. Zuo; Richard C.M. Yam

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2005.01.010

Reliability analysis of a repairable k-out-of-n system with some components being suspended when the system is down

Xiaohu Li, Ming J. Zuo, Richard C.M. Yam

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Abstract

A k-out-of-n system with independent exponential components is investigated. It is assumed that some working components are suspended as soon as the system is down, repair starts immediately when a component fails and repair times are independent and exponentially distributed. Formulas for various reliability indices of the system including mean time between failures, mean working time in a failure-repair cycle, and mean down time in a failure-repair cycle are derived. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	305-310
Journal	Reliability Engineering and System Safety
Volume	91
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2005.01.010
Publication status	Published - Mar 2006

Research Keywords

Alternating renewal process
Exponential distributions
Mean time between failures
Unlimited repairs

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