In this paper, we study the reliability and availability characteristics of a repairable system consisting of two subsystems A and B in series. Subsystem A consists of two units A1 and A2 operating in active parallel ...In this paper, we study the reliability and availability characteristics of a repairable system consisting of two subsystems A and B in series. Subsystem A consists of two units A1 and A2 operating in active parallel while subsystem B is a single unit. Failure and repair times are assumed exponential. The explicit expressions of reliability and availability characteristics like mean time to system failure (MTSF), system availability, busy period and profit function are derived using Kolmogorov forward equations method. Various cases are analyzed graphically to investigate the impacts of system parameters on MTSF, availability, busy period and profit function.展开更多
文摘In this paper, we study the reliability and availability characteristics of a repairable system consisting of two subsystems A and B in series. Subsystem A consists of two units A1 and A2 operating in active parallel while subsystem B is a single unit. Failure and repair times are assumed exponential. The explicit expressions of reliability and availability characteristics like mean time to system failure (MTSF), system availability, busy period and profit function are derived using Kolmogorov forward equations method. Various cases are analyzed graphically to investigate the impacts of system parameters on MTSF, availability, busy period and profit function.
