The Reliability of Multiplex Systems with Repair
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology
- Vol. 28 (3) , 459-476
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2517-6161.1966.tb00658.x
Abstract
Summary: This paper derives expressions for the life-time distributions of systems consisting of a number of components in parallel, where repairs to these components are possible. These distributions reduce to those of first-passage times in a birth-death process or in a semi-Markov (or Markov renewal) process, and have application outside reliability theory. In the reliability context, the effects of altering the number of components and of increasing the repair facilities are briefly compared, and a comparison of different repair distributions is made.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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