Title :
On a Two-Unit Standby-Redundant System with Imperfect Switchover
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif. 90007; Department of Industrial Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Abstract :
A standby-redundant repairable system having only two units and an imperfect switchover is considered. The Lapace-Stieltjes transform of the distribution of the time to first system faflure (TFSF) and the mean TFSF are derived. Numerical comparisons of the mean TFSF with both perfect and imperfect switching are made. All time distributions, except repair of the main units, are exponential.
Keywords :
Failure analysis; Flow graphs; Markov processes; Random variables; Stochastic processes; Switches;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1972.5216166
