DocumentCode
1316757
Title
Reliability Considerations for a 2-Unit Redundant System with Erlang-Failure and General Repair Distributions
Author
Kodama, Masanori ; Deguchi, Hiroyasu
Author_Institution
Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England.
Issue
2
fYear
1974
fDate
6/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
75
Lastpage
81
Abstract
This paper considers the case of a 2-identical-unit redundant system with Erlang-failure and general repair distributions. Two cases are considered: 1) the failure of each unit is independent of the other; 2) when one unit fails, the failure distribution in the other unit changes. The Laplace transforms of the distribution of time to system failure and the explicit formula for the mean time to system failure are derived.
Keywords
Chemical industry; Failure analysis; Laplace equations; Physics; Probability; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Shape; Statistical distributions;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.1974.5215211
Filename
5215211
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