TIME-DEPENDENT UNAVAILABILITY ANALYSIS OF STANDBY COMPONENTS INCORPORATING ARBITRARY FAILURE DISTRIBUTIONS AND 3 INSPECTION MAINTENANCE POLICIES

DIALYNAS, EN; MICHOS, DG

dc.contributor.author	DIALYNAS, EN	en
dc.contributor.author	MICHOS, DG	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:42:16Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:42:16Z
dc.date.issued	1993	en
dc.identifier.issn	0951-8320	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/23742
dc.subject.classification	Engineering, Industrial	en
dc.subject.classification	Operations Research & Management Science	en
dc.title	TIME-DEPENDENT UNAVAILABILITY ANALYSIS OF STANDBY COMPONENTS INCORPORATING ARBITRARY FAILURE DISTRIBUTIONS AND 3 INSPECTION MAINTENANCE POLICIES	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	1993	en
heal.abstract	Standby components suffer a certain type of faults defined as 'unrevealed' faults. For this purpose, they must be, periodically tested to insure their availability for use when needed. The paper presents an effective computational methodology for the time dependent unavailability analysis of standby components. The methodology consists of a set of recursive equations which have been developed assuming an arbitrary probability distribution for component lifetime and considering three commonly used inspection/maintenance policies. This set of equations has a general form and incorporates practical operating features of standby redundant systems. The indices evaluated are the exact point, interval and average unavailabilities for each component under consideration. An availability analysis of standby systems with multiple components can also be conducted by allowing staggered inspection of different sets of components within the same system to be handled by the methodology. Finally, a typical standby system is analyzed for various case studies.	en
heal.publisher	ELSEVIER SCI LTD	en
heal.journalName	RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:A1993KJ20400004	en
dc.identifier.volume	39	en
dc.identifier.issue	1	en
dc.identifier.spage	35	en
dc.identifier.epage	54	en