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Generalized availability measures for a two-unit warm standby system. (English) Zbl 0568.90036

This paper obtains generalized availability measures, e.g. interval reliability, joint interval reliability, joint availability, etc., for a two-unit warm standby repairable system. The regenerative point technique of a Markov Renewal Process has been employed to obtain these measures. Some particular cases are also considered. The technique used in this paper is straight forward and easy to apply.

MSC:

90B25 Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research
60K20 Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.)