Analysis of Warm Standby Systems Subject to Common-Cause Failures with Time Varying Failure and Repair Rates
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This paper presents reliability and availability analysis of a k-out-of-(M+S): G warm standby system with time varying failure and repair rates in presence of commoncause failure. The system composed of two categories of components. One category of the components is of type 1 has M components and the other is of type 2 has S components. Type 1 have a lower failure rate. Markov method is used to obtain the system reliability and availability. A numerical example is given to illustrate the theoretical results obtained. Selective plots are shown to demonstrate the effects of common-cause failures, number of repairmen and number of components of type 1 on system reliability and availability.
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