Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 3, Pages 269-273
doi:10.1155/MPE.2005.269
On the reliability of a renewable multiple cold standby system
Department of Quantitative Management, University of South Africa, P.O. Box 392, Pretoria 0003, South Africa
Received 14 July 2004; Revised 10 December 2004
Copyright © 2005 E. J. Vanderperre. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We present a general reliability analysis of a renewable multiple
cold standby system attended by a single repairman. Our analysis
is based on a refined methodology of queuing theory. The
particular case of deterministic failures provides an explicit
exact result for the survival function of the duplex system.