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Calculation of the Availability of a Two-Unit Parallel System With Cold Standby

An Illustration of the Embedding Technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Frank A. Van Der Duyn Schouten  and
Tjerk Ronner
Frank A. Van Der Duyn Schouten
Affiliation:
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science P.O. Box 4079, 1009 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Tjerk Ronner
Affiliation:
Department of EconometricsFree University, P.O. Box 7161, 1007 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

A two-unit parallel system with cold standby, Markovian degradation of the working unit and one repair facility is considered. The calculation of the availability of this system under a control-limit repair policy is discussed. Iterative schemes for computing the availability in case of Erlangian repair-time distributions are presented along with numerical results.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 341 - 353
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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