Reliability and availability analysis of a system with warm standby and common cause failures

This paper presents reliability and availability analyses of a two unit parallel system with warm standby and common-cause failures. The standby and switching mechanisms are subject to failure. The failed system repair times are assumed to be arbitrarily distributed. Expressions for Laplace transfor...

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Published inMicroelectronics and reliability Vol. 33; no. 9; pp. 1343 - 1349
Main Author Dhillon, B.S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.1993
Elsevier
Subjects
Applied sciences
Exact sciences and technology
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Reliability theory. Replacement problems
Availability
Standby system
Parallel system
Markov model
System reliability
System analysis
Modeling
Steady state
Mean time between failures
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ISSN0026-2714
1872-941X
DOI10.1016/0026-2714(93)90134-K

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Summary:This paper presents reliability and availability analyses of a two unit parallel system with warm standby and common-cause failures. The standby and switching mechanisms are subject to failure. The failed system repair times are assumed to be arbitrarily distributed. Expressions for Laplace transforms of system state probabilities, steady state system availability, system reliability, and mean time to failure are developed.
ISSN:0026-2714
1872-941X
DOI:10.1016/0026-2714(93)90134-K