A fast approximation method for reliability analysis of cold-standby systems

Chaonan Wang, Liudong Xing and Suprasad V. Amari

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2012, vol. 106, issue C, 119-126

Abstract: Analyzing reliability of large cold-standby systems has been a complicated and time-consuming task, especially for systems with components having non-exponential time-to-failure distributions. In this paper, an approximation model, which is based on the central limit theorem, is presented for the reliability analysis of binary cold-standby systems. The proposed model can estimate the reliability of large cold-standby systems with binary-state components having arbitrary time-to-failure distributions in an efficient and easy way. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method are illustrated using several different types of distributions for both 1-out-of-n and k-out-of-n cold-standby systems.

Keywords: Approximation method; Cold-standby system; Reliability analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.06.007

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