Availability of a periodically inspected system supported by a spare unit, under perfect repair or perfect upgrade

Jyotirmoy Sarkar and Sahadeb Sarkar

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2001, vol. 53, issue 2, 207-217

Abstract: The exact availability and the limiting average availability of a periodically inspected system, supported by a spare and maintained with perfect repairs or upgrades, are obtained for arbitrary life-, repair- and upgrade-time distributions. Illustrative examples, graphs and table are presented.

Keywords: Gamma; Limiting; average; availability; New; better; than; used; in; expectation; Reliability; Renewal; Weibull (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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