کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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4637593 | 1340744 | 2006 | 18 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
We study the cost benefit analysis of availability systems with warm standby units and imperfect coverage. The time-to-failure and the time-to-repair of the active and standby units are assumed to be exponentially and generally distributed, respectively. We assume that the coverage factor is the same for an active-unit failure as that for a standby-unit failure. We present a recursive method, using the supplementary variable technique and treating the supplementary variable as the remaining repair time, to develop the steady-state availability, (or Av), for three availability models. For each availability model, the explicit expressions for the Av for three various repair time distributions, such as exponential, k-stage Erlang, and deterministic are provided. Under the cost/benefit criterion, comparisons are performed based on assumed numerical values given to the distribution parameters, and to the cost of the active and standby units.
Journal: Applied Mathematics and Computation - Volume 172, Issue 2, 15 January 2006, Pages 1239–1256