 Availability analysis of k-out-of-n: F repairable balanced systems with m sectorsHongda Gao, Lirong Cui and He Yi Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2019, vol. 191, issue C Abstract: This paper considers a novel k-out-of-n: F repairable balanced system with m sectors. The characteristic of this balanced system is that the numbers of working components in the m sectors must keep the same at any time. Thus, some components should be shut down manually when the balance is broken. Specifically, two Markov repairable system models are proposed in this paper in terms of different restart mechanisms of shut down components. The excellent Markov process imbedding method is used to obtain the system reliabilities and availabilities. Phase-type (PH) distributions for the lifetime and repair time of the components in the first model are considered. For the second case of the second model, three different maintenance policies are proposed and their performances are compared through several numerical examples. To the best of our knowledge, the k-out-of-n: F repairable balanced system models proposed in the research of this paper are first reported in literature. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate the models and the approaches. Keywords: Balanced repairable system; k-out-of-n: F System; PH distribution; Reliability; Availability (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:reensy:v:191:y:2019:i:c:s0951832018311013 DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2019.106572 Access Statistics for this article Reliability Engineering and System Safety is currently edited by Carlos Guedes Soares More articles in Reliability Engineering and System Safety from Elsevier |
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