Title :
An Explicit Form For System Mean Life
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering; University of Queensland; St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD. 4067; AUSTRALIA
fDate :
6/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In the paper a formula is derived from which the mean life of nonrepairable systems (whose components have constant failure rates) can be written down by inspecting the list of system working states. The formula is simple to use and has an important property in that it leads to an expression whose terms all have the same (positive) sign.
Keywords :
Differential algebraic equations; Differential equations; Hazards; Inspection; Matrices; Null value; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Topology; Loaded standby; Mean life;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1977.5220082
