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.) |