| Article ID: | iaor1988993 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 255 |
| End Page Number: | 264 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1989 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | Sharma O.P. |
| Keywords: | programming: markov decision |
A general Markovian model representing several multiple-unit redundant repairable systems is proposed and its transient behavior is studied. Specifically, for multiple-unit relaibility system the reliability and availability functions are derived in an explicit form for the transient case. The stationary availability and mean time to system failure are deduced from the main results as special cases.