THE ASYMPTOTIC EXPONENTIAL FAILURE LAW FOR GENERAL REDUNDANT REPAIRABLE SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATIONS

The asymptotic exponential failure law for an arbitrary redundant repairable system is quite generally established by decreasing the unit unavailabilities to O, without assuming, among other things, the exponentiality of life/repair distributions of the units. Using this fact, the system reliability can easily be approximated well by the exponential function, even if the unit unavailabilities are of small but positive values. The error of this approximation is successfully evaluated. Moreover, the asymptotic system repair-time distribution is also derived. The usefulness of these results is exemplified by several numerical examples and by practical reliability evaluation of a major subsystem of MARS 105, JNR's computerized seat reservation system.

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  JAPANESE NATIONAL RAILWAYS

  TOKYO,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Abe, S
  • Ariyama, K
• Publication Date: 1977-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 125-128
• Serial:
  • Railway Technical Research Institute, Quarterly Reports
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute/Tetsudo Gijutsu Kenkyujo
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • Serial URL: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Control systems; Failure analysis; Information processing; Life cycle analysis; Probability; Reliability
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00173600
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Railway Technical Research Inst, Quarterly Reports
• Report/Paper Numbers: Rpt No. 1003-76
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 26 1978 12:00AM