Title :
A Study on Reliability of Railway Sleeper System Based-On Finite Markov Chain Imbedding Approach
Author :
Li, Gang ; Huang, Zuguang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Hebei Univ. of Technol., Tianjin
Abstract :
Reliability forecast of the sleeper system is very important for minimizing the maintenance cost. Generally, there are two kinds of failure criteria for sleeper system. In this paper, by using the finite Markov chain imbedding approach, the reliability of sleeper system based on the two kinds of failure criteria is given. Numerical example show that the proposal method is efficient not only for the special case that was studied in other literature, but also for the generalized case that was not studied until now.
Keywords :
Markov processes; maintenance engineering; railways; reliability; finite Markov chain; maintenance cost; railway sleeper system reliability; reliability forecast; Costs; Engineering management; Inspection; Maintenance; Rail transportation; Railway accidents; Railway engineering; Reliability engineering; Technology forecasting; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.1890
