DocumentCode
1319197
Title
Mission Reliability for a 1-Unit System with Allowed Down-Time
Author
Kodama, Masanori ; Fukuta, Jiro ; Takamatsu, Shunro
Author_Institution
Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan; Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England.
Issue
5
fYear
1973
Firstpage
268
Lastpage
270
Abstract
This paper considers a 1-unit system; the unit is repaired upon failure. The failure and repair rates need not be constant. The system fails if the unit is not repaired within a fixed time, or if the number of failures during the mission exceeds a fixed number. As a special case, that number is allowed to be ``infinite.´´ The Laplace transforms of the reliability and mean time to system failure are derived; they are not easily solved. The special case of constant failure and repair rates is treated. The results are compared with those of Calabro.
Keywords
Cities and towns; Erbium; Integral equations; Laplace equations; Physics; Probability; Reliability engineering; Statistics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TR.1973.5215676
Filename
5215676
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