Reliability analysis of a warm standby repairable system with priority in use

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4295-4303

  Yuan, Li ^a   Meng, Xian Yun ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Markov process; MTTFF; Priority; Reliability; Steady state system availability; Warm standby system

Indexed keywords

AS GOOD AS NEW; MTTFF; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PRIORITY; RELIABILITY INDEX; STEADY STATE SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFER SWITCHES; WARM STANDBY REPAIRABLE SYSTEM; WARM STANDBY SYSTEM; WHOLE SYSTEMS; WORKING TIME;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY THEORY; REPAIR;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955576849     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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