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A circular consecutive-2-out-of-n:F repairable system with one repairman is
studied in this paper. When there are more than one failed component, prio
rities are assigned to the failed components. Both the working time and the
repair time of each component is assumed to be exponentially distributed.
Every component after repair is as good as new. By using the definition of
generalized transition probability and the concept of critical component, w
e derive the state transition probability matrix of the system, Methodologi
es are then presented for the derivation of system reliability indexes such
as availability, rate of occurrence of failure, mean time between failures
, reliability, and mean time to first failure. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Lt
d. All rights reserved.