Title :
Reliability of a 2-Unit Standby Redundant System with Constrained Repair Time
Author_Institution :
R & D Organisation, Ministry of Defence//96 M-Block, Church Road//New Delhi-110001 INDIA
Abstract :
This paper considers a 2-unit warm-standby redundant system with repair. The repair of a failed unit is constrained as follows: Associated with each failure of a unit is a random variable termed the Maximum-Repair-Time (MRT) of the failure. If the repair of a failed unit is not completed within the MRT, the unit is rejected for further use. Two types of failure stituations for the system are considered: 1) No allowed down time, and 2) Some allowed down time. Expressions for the Cdf of the Time to System Failure (TSF) and the mean TSF are derived by using Markov renewal processes.
Keywords :
Convolution; Exponential distribution; Failure analysis; History; Markov processes; Random variables; Redundancy; Reliability theory; Time factors; Constrained repair time; Markov renewal process; Standby redundancy; System analysis;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1976.5215040
