Reliability, MTTF and steady-state availability analysis of systems with exponential lifetimes

ÇEKYAY B., Özekici S.

Applied Mathematical Modelling, cilt.39, sa.1, ss.284-296, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 39 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.apm.2014.05.029
  • Dergi Adı: Applied Mathematical Modelling
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.284-296
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Cold standby redundancy, K-out-of-n standby system, Mean time to failure, Steady-state system availability, System reliability, Warm standby redundancy
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Our analysis focuses mainly on coherent systems and series connection of k-out-of-. n standby subsystems with exponentially distributed component lifetimes. We analyze system reliability, mean time to failure, and steady-state availability as a function of the component failure rates. Our primary objective is provide explicit expressions for these performance measures and obtain various characterizations on their mathematical structures. This primarily involves difference of convex functions which are known to be very useful in the context of optimization problems.