DocumentCode
1342064
Title
An Explicit Form For System Mean Life
Author
Downs, T.
Author_Institution
Department of Electrical Engineering; University of Queensland; St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD. 4067; AUSTRALIA
Issue
2
fYear
1977
fDate
6/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
138
Lastpage
140
Abstract
In the paper a formula is derived from which the mean life of nonrepairable systems (whose components have constant failure rates) can be written down by inspecting the list of system working states. The formula is simple to use and has an important property in that it leads to an expression whose terms all have the same (positive) sign.
Keywords
Differential algebraic equations; Differential equations; Hazards; Inspection; Matrices; Null value; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Topology; Loaded standby; Mean life;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.1977.5220082
Filename
5220082
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