Availability of K -out-of- N : G Systems with Exponential Failures and General Repairs
Abstract For deriving the steady state probabilities and the availability of K -out-of- N : G systems with constant failure rate and general repairs an imbedded Markov chain at repair completion epochs is used. The special cases of constant repair time, Coxian-2 and Erlang-2 repair time distributions are provided for illustrating the results.