• DocumentCode
    1346210
  • Title

    Comment on "A Reparable Multistate Device

  • Author

    Muth, Eginhard J.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; University of Florida; Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA.
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1980
  • Firstpage
    275
  • Lastpage
    275
  • Abstract
    The reliability, time-dependent availability, and steady-state availability of a system that can fail in n different modes are derived in an alternate and more general way to the Elsayed & Zebib 1979 paper.
  • Keywords
    Availability; Convolution; Differential equations; Laplace equations; Materials handling; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Steady-state; Stochastic systems; Systems engineering and theory; Law of total probability; Multistate systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1980.5220822
  • Filename
    5220822