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

Volume

38

Issue

4

fYear

1989

fDate

10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

468

Lastpage

471

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Reliability, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9529

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/24.46466

Filename

46466