Reliability analysis of a two-unit general parallel system with (n-2) warm standbys

Effie Papageorgiou and George Kokolakis

European Journal of Operational Research, 2010, vol. 201, issue 3, 821-827

Abstract: A parallel (2,n-2)-system is investigated here where two units start their operation simultaneously and any one of them is replaced instantaneously upon its failure by one of the (n-2) warm standbys. We assume availability of n non-identical, non-repairable units. The unit-lifetimes in full operational mode and in partial operational mode have general distribution functions Gi and respectively. The system reliability is evaluated by recursive relations.

Keywords: Reliability; Redundancy; Warm; standbys; Recursive; probabilistic; analysis; General; distributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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