Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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808059 | Reliability Engineering & System Safety | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The paper presents an approximation algorithm for evaluating cdf of time-to-failure for k-out-of-n systems with shared spare elements. The working and spare elements can have different arbitrary distributions of time-to-failure. Different spare elements can be in different standby modes: cold, hot and warm. The algorithm is based on a universal generating function approach. It is shown that for small k the algorithm outperforms simulation.
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Authors
Gregory Levitin, Suprasad V. Amari,