In this paper, we compare the availability characteristics between three different series system configurations with mixed (cold and warm) standby components and k-stage Erlang repair times. Three configurations are studied under the assumption that the time-to-failure for each of the operative and warm standby components are assumed to be exponentially distributed with parameters λ andα , resp...

Abstract: The rapid advancements in science and technology aggravate the need for the optimal design of modern systems, aiming to achieve the maximum system reliability while meeting some resource constraints (e.g., cost, weight, etc). In this paper, we consider the system reliability optimization for series-parallel systems subject to commoncause failures (CCF). Unlike traditional approaches t...

This paper presents a study of interval analysis for solving cold-standby system reliability optimization problems with considering parameter uncertainty. Most works reported in existing literature have been based on the assumption that the probabilistic properties and statistical parameters have a known functional form, which is usually not the case. Very often the parameters are presented in ...

We analyse the reliability (survival function) of a duplex system characterized by hot standby and sustained an auxiliary unit in cold standby. The entire is attended two heterogeneous repairmen. Our methodology based on theory sectionally holomorphic functions combined with notion dual transforms. Finally, we also study total occupational time repairman responsible for repair failed priority d...

Modern Power systems are smart, interconnected, interdependent, load sharing and phased mission systems. Reliability of such complex power systems is very important in design, planning, installation and maintenance to provide electrical energy as economical as possible with an acceptable degree of reliability. In this thesis four new methods for reliability evaluation and enhancement of power s...

This document discusses Control Element (CE) High Availability (HA) within a Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Network Element (NE). Additionally, this document updates RFC 5810 by providing new normative text for the Cold Standby High Availability mechanism.

This investigation deals with the transient analysis of the machine repair system consisting of M-operating units operating under the care of single repairman. To improve the system reliability/availability, Y warm standby and S cold standby units are provided to replace the failed units. In case when all spares are being used, the failure of units occurs in degraded fashion. In such situation ...

In this paper, probabilistic models for two dissimilar redundant systems with replacement at each common cause failure have been developed to analyze and compare some reliability characteristics. Two configurations are studied under the assumption that each system is replaced at the occurrence of common cause failure. Configuration I is a 3-out-of-4 cold standby system, while configuration II i...

In this paper a model for dynamic fault tree (FT) analysis is developed. The model is ussed for the analysis of a cold standby redundant system. It is shown that a typical modern fault tree analysis (FTA), resulting in the Boolean domain in a short pseudopolynomial, i.e., a polynomial in the literals of the FT input variables, can yield grave errors in case of cold standby, even though the sing...