• DocumentCode
    1348301
  • Title

    Optimal Maintenance Policy with Imperfect Preventive Maintenance

  • Author

    Nguyen, D.G. ; Murthy, D.N.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mechanical Engineering; University of Queensland; St. Lucia, Qld. 4067 AUSTRALIA.
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1981
  • Firstpage
    496
  • Lastpage
    497
  • Abstract
    This paper considers a maintenance policy with imperfect preventive maintenance (pm). After pm, the failure characteristic of the system is different (worse) from that of correctively maintained system (viz. after a failure). Optimal policy which minimizes the mean cost-rate is discussed.
  • Keywords
    Calculus; Chromium; Computer aided software engineering; Cost function; Optimization methods; Preventive maintenance; Reliability theory; Search methods; Shape; Sufficient conditions; Imperfect maintenance; Maintenance policy; Mean cost rate;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1981.5221196
  • Filename
    5221196