A multi-state reliability analysis of single-component repairable system based on phase-type distribution

Author

Di Peng ; Li Fang ; Chen Tong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Eng., Naval Univ. of Eng., Wuhan, China

fYear

2013

fDate

17-19 July 2013

Firstpage

496

Lastpage

501

Abstract

This research investigates the multi-state reliability of single-component repairable system, considering maximal/minimal repair pattern. We assume that the operational and repair times of the system follow continuous Phase-type distribution, instead of exponential distribution or others typical distributions, which make the reliability model more adaptive to describe real situations. The proposed model provides the analytic formulas of the availability, up and down periods of system, mean time between failures (MTBF) and mean time to repair (MTTR). Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the model.

Keywords

reliability theory; statistical distributions; MTBF; MTTR; continuous phase-type distribution; maximal-minimal repair pattern; mean time between failure; mean time to repair; multistate reliability analysis; operational time; repair time; single-component repairable system; Analytical models; Availability; Exponential distribution; Maintenance engineering; Markov processes; Reliability theory; maximal/minimal repair; multi-state; phase-type distribution; reliability; single-component;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

ISSN

2155-1847

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0473-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSE.2013.6586327

Filename

6586327