Maintenance Policies for Two-Unit Balanced Systems Subject to Degradation

• Published in: IEEE transactions on reliability Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 1116 - 1126
• Main Authors: Zhao, Xiujie, Wang, Ziyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Balanced systems; Bivariate analysis; Correlation; Costs; Decision analysis; Degradation; Dynamic programming; Inspection; Iterative algorithms; Iterative methods; Maintenance; Maintenance engineering; maintenance policy optimization; Markov decision process (MDP); Markov processes; multivariate degradation; Optimization; Policies; Reliability; Sensitivity analysis; stochastic degradation

In this article, we present a novel maintenance policy optimization method for systems with two balanced components. The components in the system are assumed to degrade over time according to a bivariate Wiener process. The maintenance actions aim at eliminating the differences of degradation levels...