Reliability of multi-state systems with free access to repairable standby elements

Gregory Levitin, Heping Jia, Yi Ding, Yonghua Song and Yuanshun Dai

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2017, vol. 167, issue C, 192-197

Abstract: The paper presents an approach for evaluating reliability of standby systems composed of multi-state elements with constant state transition rates. Any standby elements can be repaired, whereas no repairs are possible in operation. When an operating element fails the standby element with the best technical state is activated. Time-to-failure distributions of operating elements depend on their states at the time of activation. An iterative algorithm for reliability evaluation based on element state probabilities is suggested. An example of using the algorithm for evaluating reliability of standby system is presented.

Keywords: Reliability analysis; Multi-state system; Repairable standby element; Iterative algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2017.05.003

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