Abstract:SUMMARYThis paper defines repairable failure-delay systems, and gives explicit formulae for their availability. It presents models for single-component, series and parallel systems with delay at system level, and a 'rare event' approximation for availability and reliability of series systems with delay at component level. Finally, it uses a renewal terminating process for deriving the limiting distribution of the lifetime of failure-delay systems.K E I ' WORDS Failure-delay system Availability Reliability Rene… Show more
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