Title :
Generalized reliability results for 1-out-of-n:G repairable systems
Author :
Linton, Darrell G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
fDate :
10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The author examines a class of 1-out-of-n:G systems consisting of n nominally identical units in parallel redundancy serviced by a single repair facility. Assuming constant failure rates and general repair distributions permits the problem of finding the Laplace transform of the time-to-system-failure distribution and the mean time-to-system-failure to be reduced to solving a closed-form system of (n-1) by (n-1) linear equations, for n at least 4. Numerical results are presented using a model of a satellite maintenance service
Keywords :
failure analysis; maintenance engineering; redundancy; reliability theory; 1-out-of-n:G systems; Laplace transform; constant failure rates; general repair distributions; mean time-to-system-failure; parallel redundancy; reliability; repairable systems; satellite maintenance service; single repair facility; time-to-system-failure distribution; Electric breakdown; Laplace equations; Markov processes; Random variables; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Satellites; Stochastic processes;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
