Reliability Characteristics of a Markov System With a Mission of Random Duration

1 October 1985

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Vol. R-34 (4) , 393-396
https://doi.org/10.1109/tr.1985.5222204

Abstract

Realistic reliabilitiy measures are developed for s-coherent systems whose behavior can be modeled as a continuous-time Markov chain, and which terminate their useful life in some finite but random amount of time. An example is included to illustrate the use of the closed form expressions that are derived for these measures.

Keywords

TIME MEASUREMENT
MATRICES
PHASE MEASUREMENT
RANDOM VARIABLES
AVAILABILITY
SPACE MISSIONS
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
ART
ABSORPTION
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

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Matrix-Flowgraph Methods with Applications to the Analysis of Systems Whose Missions are of Uncertain Duration
IIE Transactions, 1984
Uptime of Systems Subject to Repairable and Nonrepayable Failures
A I I E Transactions, 1980