DocumentCode
1315916
Title
A Reparable 3-State Device
Author
Proctor, C.L. ; Singh, Balbir
Author_Institution
Department of Industrial Engineering//Western Michigan University//Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001 USA.
Issue
3
fYear
1976
Firstpage
210
Lastpage
211
Abstract
A device is said to have three states if it has one good state and two mutually exclusive failure modes; e.g., in one failure mode, it operates when it shouldn´t, in the other it doesn´t operate when it should. Some examples of such devices include a fluid flow valve, an automatic machine, and an explosive. A Markov model is developed to obtain the availability function of such a device.
Keywords
Aerospace industry; Assembly systems; Associate members; Availability; Difference equations; Explosives; Fluid flow; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Switches; 3-State device; Availability analysis;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.1976.5215044
Filename
5215044
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