• DocumentCode
    1317081
  • Title

    Reliability Analysis of a System Subject to Partial and Catastrophic Failures

  • Author

    Kontoleon, J. M. ; Kontoleon, Nadia

  • Author_Institution
    Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (O.T.E.), Research Dept., Patission 85, Athens, Greece
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1974
  • Firstpage
    277
  • Lastpage
    278
  • Abstract
    This note considers a system which is subject to both partial and catastrophic failures. A Markov process, continuous in time and with three discrete states is used to demonstrate the effect of the throw-away maintenance philosophy on reliability.
  • Keywords
    Degradation; Differential equations; Failure analysis; Laplace equations; Maintenance; Markov processes; Probability; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1974.5215272
  • Filename
    5215272