• DocumentCode
    1246597
  • Title

    Toward a deeper understanding of the availability of series-systems without aging during repairs

  • Author

    Schneeweiss, Winfrid G.

  • Volume
    54
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    98
  • Lastpage
    99
  • Abstract
    It is shown in detail that the steady-state availability of a series-system with no aging of components during the repair of another one can be interpreted as a conditional probability of the well-known s-independent case conditioned on allowing for at most one failed component at any time. Trivially, this conditional probability is larger than the standard probability, viz. the product of all components´ probabilities. Yet it can be shown that also without this new interpretation of the formula for the availability of a series-system without aging during repairs it is exceptionally easy to prove the fact that by no aging during repairs, the availability of series-systems increases; a most plausible result.
  • Keywords
    failure analysis; maintenance engineering; probability; reliability theory; series (mathematics); component aging; component probability; conditional probability; repair; s-dependence; series-system availability; standard probability; steady-state availability; Absorption; Aging; Algebra; Equations; Steady-state; Aging; conditional probability; s-dependence; series-system availability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.2004.842086
  • Filename
    1402687