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http://dx.doi.org/10.7782/JKSR.2017.20.3.349

Reliability Analysis of Hot-Standby Sparing System with Common Cause Failures for Railway  

Park, Chan-woo (Railroad Safety Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Chae, Eunkyung (Railroad Safety Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Shin, Duck-ho (Railroad Safety Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society for Railway / v.20, no.3, 2017 , pp. 349-355 More about this Journal
Abstract
Failures of railway systems can result in train delays or accidents, and therefore high reliability is required to ensure safety of railway systems. To improve reliability, railway systems are designed with redundant systems so that the standby system will continue to function normally even if the primary system fails. Generally, overall system reliability can be evaluated by the reliabilities of the parts of the whole system and the reliability of the redundant system considering common failures in case of each system is not conform physical, functional and process independent. In this study, the reliability of the hot-standby sparing system is analyzed the independent systems and dependent systems with common failures. The reliability for the standby system can be effectively analysed using Markov models, which can model the redundant configuration and the state transition.
Keywords
Reliability; Hot-Standby sparing system; Common cause failure; Markov model; Railway system;
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