International Journal of Reliability and Applications
- Volume 14 Issue 1
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- Pages.11-26
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- 2013
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- 1598-0073(pISSN)
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- 2283-8914(eISSN)
Availability equivalence factors of a general repairable series-parallel system
- Sarhan, Ammar M. (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University) ;
- Mustafa, Abdelfatth (Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Humanity Studies, Al-Kharj Salman bin Abdulaziz University)
- Published : 2013.06.30
Abstract
The availability equivalence factors of a general repairable series-parallel system is discussed in this paper based on the availability function of the system. The system components are assumed to be repairable and independent but not identical. The life and repair times of the system components are exponentially distributed with different parameters. Two types of availability equivalent factors of the system are derived. The results derived in this paper generalizes those given in the literature. A case study is introduced to illustrate how the idea of this work can be applied.