DocumentCode
1348930
Title
Component Availability
Author
Marshall, Clifford W.
Author_Institution
Polytechnic Institute of New York; Route 110; Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA.
Issue
2
fYear
1982
fDate
6/1/1982 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
216
Lastpage
218
Abstract
Reliability can reasonably be defined for an individual component. Availability depends intrinsically on the service discipline of a system so that a component can not be assigned a measure of availability exclusive of the system in which it operates. To obtain a general formulation the structural details of the system are omitted and the action of the system is represented by the waiting time distribution of the component service queue. Two approaches to the definition of component availability are given. 1) An integro-differential equation definition in terms of the service waiting time distribution. 2) A methodological definition for component availability in terms of the details of a combinatorial queue model.
Keywords
Availability; Failure analysis; Independent component analysis; Integrodifferential equations; Laplace equations; Queueing analysis; Steady-state; Availability; Service queues;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.1982.5221307
Filename
5221307
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