Cold standby redundancy optimization for nonrepairable series-parallel systems: Erlang time to failure distribution

Authors

  • Emad Roghanian Department of Industrial Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology
  • Hamid Shahriari Department of Industrial Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology
  • Meisam Sadeghi Department of Industrial Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology
Abstract:

In modeling a cold standby redundancy allocation problem (RAP) with imperfect switching mechanism, deriving a closed form version of a system reliability is too difficult. A convenient lower bound on system reliability is proposed and this approximation is widely used as a part of objective function for a system reliability maximization problem in the literature. Considering this lower bound does not necessarily lead to an optimal solution. In this study by assuming that working time of switching mechanism is exponentially distributed, exact value of system reliability is derived analytically through applying Markov process and solving a relevant set of differential-difference equations. The Runge-Kutta numerical scheme is also employed to verify the accuracy of the results. It is assumed that components time to failure follow an Erlang distribution which is appropriate for most engineering design problems by giving the possibility of modeling different increasing hazard functions. A new mathematical model is presented and its performance is evaluated through solving a well-known example in the literature. Results demonstrate that a higher level of system reliability is achievable through implementing the proposed model.  

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Journal title

volume 10  issue special issue on Quality Control and Reliability

pages  1- 16

publication date 2017-06-20

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