Modeling the Availability of a Repairable Series Structure with two Units
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Work-mission-availability, semi-Markov model, Markov processes, integral equations system, repairable components
Abstract
When there is a structure with two serial components where each one owns a life time that is distributed exponentially and both of the components are repairable, it is established a renovation process, in which both components need to be working in order for the operation of the structure. It is observed that the renovation process evidences a semimarkovian behavior and it is shown that through this one, its availability function is one of the inquiries of a system of integral equations that is solved by a numerical method designed for that purpose. The novelty in this article is that it is considered a process whose state space includes repair time, which is useful in engineering applications.
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Liliana Rodríguez-Figueredo, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Magíster en Matemáticas Aplicadas
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