Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-FIGUEREDO, Liliana  and  CALVACHE-ARCHILA, Álvaro. Modeling of the Availability of a Repairable Series Structure with two Units. ing.cienc. [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.31, pp.53-76. ISSN 1794-9165.  https://doi.org/10.17230/ingciencia.16.31.3.

When there is a structure with two serial components where each one owns a life time that is distributed exponentially and both of the components are repairable, it is established a renovation process, in which both components need to be working in order for the operation of the structure. It is observed that the renovation process evidences a semimarkovian behavior and it is shown that through this one, its availability function is one of the inquiries of a system of integral equations that is solved by a numerical method designed for that purpose. The novelty in this article is that it is considered a process whose state space includes repair time, which is useful in engineering applications.

Keywords : Series structure; availability; semi-Markov model; integral equations system; repairable components.

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