Optimal imperfect maintenance cost analysis of a two-component system with failure interactions

• Published in: Reliability engineering & system safety Vol. 177; pp. 24 - 34
• Main Authors: Zhang, Nan, Fouladirad, Mitra, Barros, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Barking Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2018; Elsevier BV; Elsevier
• Subjects: Catastrophic failure analysis; Cost analysis; Degradation; Engineering Sciences; Environmental impact; Failure interaction; Imperfect repair; Long-run average cost optimization; Maintenance costs; Mathematical models; Reliability engineering; Repair & maintenance; Two-component systems; Virtual age method; Imperfect repair; Long-run average cost optimization; Failure interaction; Two-component systems; Virtual age method

•Maintenance policy analysis.•Two component system with stochastic dependency.•Imperfect maintenance and virtual age model.•Non constant Failure rate and Accumulative damage. This paper considers a two-component system with failure interactions. Component 1 is repairable and component 2 is non repai...