Availability and Reliability Measures for Multistate System by Using Markov Reward Model
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This paper describes some models and measures of reliability for multistate systems. The expected cumulative reward for the continuous time Markov reward models are used for deriving the structure function for a multistate system where the system and its components can have different performance levels ranging from perfect functioning to complete failure. The suggested approach presents with respect to the non-homogeneous and homogeneous Markov reward model of two stochastic process for computation of these availability and reliability measures. A particular case for three levels is analyzed numerically by assuming Weibull and exponential distributions for failure and repair times.
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