H. Haukas et T. Aven, FORMULAS FOR THE DOWNTIME DISTRIBUTION OF A MONOTONE SYSTEM OBSERVED IN A TIME-INTERVAL, Reliability engineering & systems safety, 52(1), 1996, pp. 19-26
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20
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Operatione Research & Management Science","Engineering, Industrial
In this paper we study the problem of computing the downtime distribut
ion in a time interval of a binary monotone system comprising stochast
ically independent components, with exponentially distributed life tim
es and arbitrary repair time distributions. An approximation formula i
s established, and compared with standard Markov and normal expression
s. It is shown by performing Monte Carlo simulation that the establish
ed formula produces good results. (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Limited.