Article ID: | iaor20119157 |
Volume: | 96 |
Issue: | 11 |
Start Page Number: | 1542 |
End Page Number: | 1551 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
Journal: | Reliability Engineering and System Safety |
Authors: | Zhang Yuan Lin, Lai Kin Keung, Leung Kit Nam Francis |
Keywords: | stochastic processes, quality & reliability |
In this paper, a cold standby repairable system consisting of two dissimilar components and one repairman is studied. Assume that working time distributions and repair time distributions of the two components are both exponential, and Component 1 has repair priority when both components are broken down. After repair, Component 1 follows a geometric process repair while Component 2 obeys a perfect repair. Under these assumptions, using the perfect repair model, the geometric process repair model and the supplementary variable technique, we not only study some important reliability indices, but also consider a replacement policy