Markov chain analysis of a situation where cannibalization is the only repair activity

Alan J. Rolfe

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1970, vol. 17, issue 2, 151-158

Abstract: This paper considers a group of S identical aircraft, each of which is partitioned into K parts which fail exponentially. The only way in which a failed aircraft can be repaired is by cannibalizing its out‐of‐commission parts from other failed aircraft. The evolution of the number of good aircraft over time is governed by the transient behavior of an absorbing Markov chain. We can therefore study this behavior by matrix multiplication although the computational problem grows large for K ≥ 3. Some numerical results and some approximations are also provided.

Date: 1970
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