An alternative approach to reliability analysis of cold standby systems

M. Fathizadeh and K. Khorshidian

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2016, vol. 45, issue 21, 6471-6480

Abstract: An alternative approach is applied for reliability analysis of standby systems on the basis of matrix renewal function. In this regard, a single-server, two identical unit cold standby systems with an imperfect switch is considered as a three-state semi-Markov process. Several important reliability measures such as availability, mean time to failure, expected number of failures, etc., are obtained for general lifetime distributions. Also, the main results have been treated to the case of exponential lifetimes and explicit formulas obtained for this case in addition of some numerical illustrations. This approach can easily be extended to more general standby systems with different configurations.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2014.944660

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