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Reliability of an Independent Component,s-Spare System with Exponential Life Times and General Repair Times |
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| Authors: | U Narayan Bhat |
| Affiliation: | Dept. of Computer Science and Operations Research , Southern Methodist University , Dallas , Texas |
| Abstract: | In this paper, the reliability of a system with N independent components supplied with a pool of s spares is investigated. The components have an exponential life time distribution and the failed components are repaired, one at a time, with a general repair time distribution. Numerical results are presented for the mean time to system failure (system is said to fail when a component fails with no spare available) and the reliability of the system in some special cases of interest. |
| Keywords: | The 1-Component s-Spare Systemd Transform Equations Recursive Method of Solution Mean Time to System Failure Numerical Inversion of Transforms Gamma Distribution for Repair Times Discrete Repair Times |
