id: 05996972
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an: 05996972
au: Wu, Qingtai; Wu, Shaomin
ti: Reliability analysis of two-unit cold standby repairable systems under
    Poisson shocks.
so: Appl. Math. Comput. 218, No. 1, 171-182 (2011).
py: 2011
pu: Elsevier Science Publishing Co. (North-Holland), New York
la: EN
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li: doi:10.1016/j.amc.2011.05.089
ab: Summary: This paper analyses the reliability of a cold standby system
    consisting of two repairable units, a switch and a repairman. At any
    time, one of the two units is operating while the other is on cold
    standby. We say that a repairman is on vacation if he is absent when a
    unit fails, although he might actually be repairing other equipment. We
    assume that shocks can attack the operating unit. The arrival times of
    the shocks follow a homogeneous Poisson process and their magnitude is
    a random variable following a known distribution. Time on repairing a
    failed unit and the length of a repairman’s vacation follow general
    continuous probability distributions, respectively. The paper derives a
    number of reliability indices: system reliability, mean time to first
    failure, steady-state availability and steady-state failure frequency.
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