• DocumentCode
    1344357
  • Title

    A Reparable Multistate Device

  • Author

    Elsayed, E.A. ; Zebib, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering; Rutgers University; POBox 909; Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    4/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    81
  • Lastpage
    82
  • Abstract
    A device that can assume several states of failure is called a multistate device. Closed form solutions for both the steady-state and time-dependent availability of such a device and probability of failure in state i at any given time t are developed, largely in Laplace Transform form.
  • Keywords
    Availability; Closed-form solution; Difference equations; Differential equations; Failure analysis; Laplace equations; Performance analysis; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Testing; Multistate device; Time-dependent availability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1979.5220490
  • Filename
    5220490