Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Cold Standby Systems with Erlang Distributions.
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| Title: | Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Cold Standby Systems with Erlang Distributions. |
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| Authors: | Amari, Suprasad V.1 samari@ptc.com |
| Source: | International Journal of Performability Engineering. Jul2012, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p417-425. 9p. |
| Subjects: | ERLANG (Computer program language), Systems design, Integrals, Reliability in engineering, System analysis |
| Abstract: | Many fielded systems use cold standby redundancy as an effective system design strategy. However, methods for analyzing the reliability of k-out-of-n cold standby systems, particularly with components having age-dependent hazard rates, are limited. In this paper, using the concepts of counting processes, we propose an efficient method to evaluate the reliability of k-out-of-n cold standby systems. This proposed method considers Erlang distributions for component lives and the effects of switch failures on system reliability. The main advantage of this counting process-based method is that it reduces a complex problem involving multiple integrals into an equivalent simple problem involving one-dimensional convolution integrals. We consider the Erlang distribution for three reasons: (1) it can be used to model either constant or increasing hazard rates, (2) it can be used to approximate several component failure time distributions, and (3) it has well established closed-form expressions for calculating the convolutions that are used in the counting process-based method. We show that all steps involved in finding the reliability of k-out-of-n cold standby system using the proposed method are simple. We demonstrate the proposed method and its computational efficiency using a numerical example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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